When you decide not to let unpredictability or uncertainty affect you and your future—you have come to terms that you have got to live with chaos, no matter how disruptive it can be in putting up a brake to your life’s goals.
Instead of blaming events or things that he’s no control over, John has learned to be comfortably uncomfortable in coping with life’s challenges—he doesn’t let bad breaks or misfortunes affect his attitude towards life; instead, he’s grateful that he can rely on God’s wisdom to overcome whatever obstacle comes his way.
by MathPlus July 20, 2018
Short for “Mathematicians Are Terribly Haughty.” When pure mathematicians who pridefully claims to study math for math’s sake regard applied mathematicians as second-rate, and math educators from the School of Education as third-rate.
When asked what M.A.T.H stands for, a twelve-year-old student answered his math teacher: “Monotonous, Abstract, Terrifying, Hard.”
by MathPlus May 11, 2021
A dirty word among non-symbol-minded folks who are not keen, or find it brain-unfriendly, to learn the language of mass, length, and time; instead, they would rather pay the exam-smart or geeks to do the oft-tedious task for them.
The math guys and gals run the world, but most are clumsy in communicating their ideas to others, thus making them look like cold-hearted beings living in a platonic world of their own.
by MathPlus March 03, 2021
When a head of state is against the use of masks in public in response to widespread violent protests in their land, so that the police could identify and arrest the rioters; or in case any public mask hoarding could deprive hospitals of them—either situation contradicts public health measures in a pandemic.
During the coronavirus crisis, the implicit “Thou needn’t wear a mask” message only raises panic in the population that there aren’t enough masks available for everyone.
by MathPlus April 09, 2021
Commemorative stamps that honor the contributions of Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, the co-fathers of Calculus, to mankind.
How many philaculus first day covers have so far been issued worldwide that credit the mathematical achievements of co-discovers Newton and Leibniz, who fought a years-old “mathematical war,” by accusing each other of plagiarism?
by MathPlus October 28, 2021
An agile math curriculum that often incorporates the best math methodologies and pedagogies of the East and the West, by distilling them into cheap and good textbooks and workbooks for students worldwide, compared to those dear, inch-deep, mile-wide US textbooks.
Singapore Math could arguably be called the Uber of math education, based on the increasing number of developed and developing countries that have adopted the alien curriculum; as a result, thousands of students’ math grades have improved significantly over the years.
by MathPlus December 01, 2018
WHO's yet-to-be-approved 16th letter of the Greek alphabet as a politically correct label for the politically charged “Trumpvirus”—named after Trum-pi-sm—to avoid stigmatizing any right-wing inept head of state who failed to prevent millions of infections and thousands of deaths.
Diehard Trumpists and hardcore QAnonists have complained to the World Health Organization that Democrat lawmakers’ and US-unfriendly nations’ use of “Trumpvirus” is discriminatory or demeaning, so they suggested rechristening it to “Pi,” and proposed “Tau” for its twice deadly variant (B.6.28).
by MathPlus June 01, 2021