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The art of predicting someone’s future from the number of infections or deaths in a given community or country at a given time, and their birth date.
Fortunetellers in some remote parts of Asia are profiting from coviderology, by advising gullible clients whether or not they should travel hundreds of miles to the nearest city to get vaccinated.
by MathPlus May 4, 2021
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Relying on GPS weakens our natural ability to find our own way, while atrophying other cognitive skills that are needed to navigate our oft-complicated lives—we need to resurrect the lost art of getting out of our comfort zone and finding our way without a map or GPS.
by MathPlus February 20, 2018
Get the GPS mug.When you are at home with both Singapore’s bar model method and stack model method that you know which problem-solving visualization strategy is more suitable to solve certain types of word problems.
It’s an open secret that most Singapore math educators or coaches are ill-equipped to handle blended modeling—most are familiar with bar modeling, but few are fluent with the more intuitive stack modeling, in tackling brain-unfriendly math questions.
by MathPlus November 1, 2021
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Why do bad things happen to good people? And material blessings seem to be chasing after evil people? Life is a bitch, isn’t it?
by MathPlus December 29, 2018
Get the Life Is a Bitch mug.The latest product forex exchanges are keen to introduce to investors during this pandemic crisis, especially when mask wearing is likely to remain mandatory or be strongly recommended long after the populations of most countries have been vaccinated.
During this year’s new lockdowns, a number of bogus companies were charged for cheating gullible investors of over $10 million, by promising them an average of 20 percents returns in financing mask trading activities.
by MathPlus March 22, 2021
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Guesstimate how many wayang math postings appear on Facebook and Instagram every year by oft-kiasu or egocentric parents to hint to their social circles of their “supernatural” parenting or tutoring skills.
by MathPlus November 13, 2021
Get the Wayang Math mug.When it is more effective to use a general letter x rather than a concrete numeral to represent a number, whose value constantly varies—an economic way to convey the idea of a variable in an equation or a mathematical sentence.
Why an X, and not an A, B, or C is because the letters x, y, and z have traditionally been used to stand for unknowns, while the letters a, b, and c for constants.
by MathPlus November 18, 2018
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