MathPlus's definitions

Trumpability

A mélange of bigotry, corruptibility, conspiracy, criminality, cruelty, dishonesty, idolatry, illegality, immorality, infidelity, insecurity, jealousy, religiosity, and treachery that characterize a white racist and supremacist.

Anyone flirting with trumpability isn’t too far from white terrorism, if they don’t get what they want by ethical or legal means.

by MathPlus January 28, 2021

Trump 3:16

When thousands of hardcore supporters of Donald J. Trump so “loved” him that they would die for their “political savior” to ensure that white people in the US, even if they became the minority in the future, would always wield political power over the non-whites—3:16 is a “blasphemous” reference to John 3:16, the biblical verse that reveals about God’s love for His people that He sent his Son to die for mankind on the cross so that whoever believes in Him will have eternal life.

For white racists and supremacists, and millions of “white moderates” who have accepted others who don’t look like them in their midst, it doesn’t matter whether the presidential candidate is corrupt, selfish, racist, sexist, xenophobic, or inept, as long as he is white, which is what really matters in the end—they want a Trump 3:16 political figure to rule the country to ensure that white supremacy prevails.

by MathPlus December 21, 2020

Singapore

A country that has turned learning into drudgery and killed the joy of both teaching and learning, because of its obsession to be top in international studies like TIMSS and PISA.

Singapore's subsidized tertiary education is mostly funded by sin tax, thanks to hundreds of thousands of local gamblers—Singapore is unofficially the third largest gambling market in the world.

by MathPlus July 30, 2017

Donald J. Trump

One of the brightest, honest, selfless, and wisest US heads of state of all times (after King Solomon), except that all these self-declared qualities about him are false.

Donald J. Trump is one such political character who pops up once every century or two to exhibit the dark side of humanity—how to notoriously stand out from the dishonest or immoral crowd, by being the worst of the worst—if you can’t be really good, be really bad to the nth degree.

by MathPlus December 22, 2020

MAGA MATH

Short for “Make America Greater Again, Make Americans Think Harder.” A 2024 slogan to Trumpublicans to make America numerate or quantitatively literate again, by not having Asian immigrants or naturalized Americans but white natives as mathletes to represent the USA at international olympiads.

Chanting his MAGA MATH mantra at rallies, Donald J. Trump promises his blue-collar supporters that only true-blue white Americans would be allowed to be part of the US math teams at all regional and international contests and competitions, and not alien mathletes or math imports.

by MathPlus June 5, 2021

Data Discrimination

The use of big data to discriminate against those who don’t have a “good credit score” in public—for example, an insurance company might charge someone a higher premium because they live in a crime-infested area, or in a region with a high percentage of loan defaulters or smokers.

Big data and social media companies, which collect data on people’s profiles and purchasing behaviors and credit-worthiness, are unethically selling these sensitive information to banks and insurance companies, which in turn apply data discrimination against potential clients.

by MathPlus September 5, 2018

Singapore Math

A form of “mathematical acupuncture” that could relieve non-Singapore teachers and students of math anxiety, if they experiment with problem-solving heuristics like the bar model method and stack model method, while experiencing the pain of brain-unfriendly questions.

Although a number of countries that embraced Singapore math have seen significant improvement in their students’ math scores, however, without parental and societal pressures for a nation to become numerate, at best cosmetic changes would result even with the best math curriculum in place.

by MathPlus July 14, 2018