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When amusement park visitors who wish to ride a roller coaster are banned from screaming during the minutes-long trip lest their high-pitched voices might spread the virus to those around them if they happen to be asymptomatic.
In Japan, due to the Covid-🎢 ruling, most parents are discouraging their kids from taking part in any rides.
by MathPlus September 10, 2020
Get the Covid-🎢mug. When a misplaced or missing comma, or inserting an extra comma, in a contract can cost a company lots of money, as the meaning of a sentence inadvertently favors the employees instead of the employer.
By accidentally inserting a comma between “fruit” and “plants” in the draft containing “fruit plants, tropical and semi-tropical, are exempt from import tariffs,” all imported fruit suddenly become duty-free; as a result, the government loses tens of millions of dollars for that “dear comma.”
by MathPlus December 24, 2018
Get the Dear Commamug. When white racists and supremacists in the name of Christian nationalism want others to believe that they are the anointed and the righteous, when God’s righteousness has been credited to all believers of Christ by grace, who receive it by faith and not by works, regardless of their race, color, or social status—when God made Jesus who had no sin to be sin for all believers, so that in Him they are considered “right” in God’s eyes.
Trumpublicans, January 6 “patriots,” and morally bankrupt GOP members want those who don’t look or think like them to believe that white privilege is a divine gift, which should prevail in all spheres of life at all times and in all places, turning a blind eye that white ≠ right and white ≠ might.
by MathPlus June 27, 2021
Get the White ≠ Rightmug. When people around the world are questioning whether pharmaceutical companies are dead serious in producing a vaccine that could cure humankind of Covid-19, or whether their moneymaking agenda is to ensure that people move from a pandemic to an endemic situation, whereby they would need to be jabbed more expensively every year to protect themselves against allegedly deadlier variants of the virus.
If vaccine manufacturers’ motives were to enrich themselves and their shareholders, inquiring about the shelf life of a corona vaccine would be like asking them an uncomfortable or taboo question, which is likely to yield a vague or unhelpful answer.
by MathPlus March 28, 2021
Get the The Shelf Life of a Corona Vaccinemug. If teachers and textbook authors would creatively present the oft-sterile math curriculum in a form that would get students excited about the beauty of the subject, by not adulterating but contextualizing the content—by letting learners see both the mathematical forest and the trees.
Mathematics is too important to be left in the hands of mostly uncreative authors or publishers; as a result, teachers and parents would need to sexify the most boring subject in school—they need to ask, “why can’t math be like sex?” to lure unmotivated or mathophobic students.
by MathPlus December 1, 2018
Get the Why Can’t Math Be Like Sex?mug. Math questions that leverage on the coronavirus pandemic—lockdowns, infections, deaths, face masks, social distancing measures, stimulus packages, tax rebates, rent reliefs, vaccines, and the like—to hone students’ problem-solving or guesstimation skills.
Two Covid-19 math questions are:
1. After parking their cars, 317 Trump supporters took a bus instead of walked to the rally. Each bus can hold 28 passengers. How many buses were needed to ferry them?
2. Eric and Don each have a certain number of face masks. If Eric gave Don five masks, Don would have twice as many masks as him. If Don gave five masks to Eric, they each would have the same number of masks. How many face masks does each brother have? Answer: Eric: 25, Don: 35.
1. After parking their cars, 317 Trump supporters took a bus instead of walked to the rally. Each bus can hold 28 passengers. How many buses were needed to ferry them?
2. Eric and Don each have a certain number of face masks. If Eric gave Don five masks, Don would have twice as many masks as him. If Don gave five masks to Eric, they each would have the same number of masks. How many face masks does each brother have? Answer: Eric: 25, Don: 35.
by MathPlus December 16, 2020
Get the COVID-19 MATHmug. When you religiously or selflessly carry out wearing a mask at home lest you might infect your bunny, cat, dog, goldfish, or hamster—you don’t mind some inconvenience or sacrifice because of your love for your pet.
If you truly value your pet as a member of the extended family, will you go the extra second mile in practicing mask care to protect them against Covid-19?
by MathPlus April 7, 2021
Get the Mask Caremug.