When astrologers and feng shui masters figure out the “good” and “bad” days of the 45th President of the United States from his birthdate and the zodiac—in Chinese numerology, baby Trump was born in the Year of the Dog.
Emperor Xi and gang consulted the fengshui gurus in Beijing to find out about the numerology of Donald Trump—they wanted to know when his “lucky” and “unlucky” days in the Year of the Pig would be in order to schedule their trade meetings with him.
by MathPlus February 18, 2019
When you visualize yourself indulging in a time travel experiment meeting the infinite digits of the transcendental number π, hoping to be struck with some aha! moments, or to experience a flash of insights, along the numerological journey.
Would someone embarking on a pime travel mission be able to see the color or shape of the number pi, or to smell or taste it?
by MathPlus August 31, 2021
Could the maskidity be used as a test to alert maskers that it’s time for them to change to a new mask?
by MathPlus April 05, 2021
When pure mathematicians dream that the elegant proofs of their π-related theorems would increase the chances of landing their names in the Mathematical Book of Life, or could propel them into mathematical immortality.
It’s an unspoken desire among Fields medalists—the mathematical equivalent of Nobel Prize winners in mathematics—and first-rate mathematicians to achieve pie-in-the-sky pi dreams.
by MathPlus May 24, 2021
When math educators fly to the “fine” city of Singapore to attend a pep talk on the bar model method, and to visit a local school and watch a teacher conduct a problem-solving math lesson, before spending the rest of their educational trip on shopping and sightseeing.
When Singapore Math tourism visitors flew back home, they’d excitedly tell their principals or superintendents to embrace the Singapore Math model, by substituting their present dear mile-wide-inch-deep textbooks with wallet-friendly Singapore math titles, often much to the disapproval of their colleagues, who want to “Make US Math Great Again.”
by MathPlus January 04, 2021
Read as “Covid-alpha.” Also known as the B.1.1.7 or “Alpha” variant. The UK or Kent variant is believed to be the second deadliest variant after the India variant to sweep across a number of countries—however, alpha patients are more than twice less likely to be hospitalized than their delta counterparts.
Covid-⍺, which is estimated to be 40%–80% more transmissible than Covid-19, is
believed to be more infectious because it contains mutations that make it better adapted to evade the immune system, thus allowing it to replicate and potentially find new hosts.
believed to be more infectious because it contains mutations that make it better adapted to evade the immune system, thus allowing it to replicate and potentially find new hosts.
by MathPlus June 21, 2021
Short for “f*#*ing or fabricated math.” Fake numbers used by Donald J. Trump’s dubious lawyers to file his frivolous lawsuits, who claimed with zero proof that the ballot votes in those states where he lost were fraudulent.
The President-Loser refuses to concede defeat to the President-Elect, and wants to use f-math to enrage and encourage his diehard supporters to hold public protests nationwide, which would cast doubt on the legitimacy of the 46th President of the United States.
by MathPlus November 19, 2020