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
The tools you need to get the most mathophobic student or adult not to give up on the most disliked school subject even if it appears that they were not born with the “mathematical gene.”
Pep talks, study tips, showers of praise, and no condemnation for failures are some common weapons of math persuasion successful teachers use to help students achieve a decent level of mathematical proficiency.
by MathPlus January 30, 2018
Also known as the “Xtian Taliban.” Armed “Christians,” most of them being white racists and supremacists hiding under the umbrella of Christian nationalism, who wouldn’t hesitate to use violence or even murder to ensure that their pro-Christian un-Christian ex-president—who lost the 2020 US election to a white pro-abortion and pro-LGBTQ+ “socialist” presidential candidate—continued to be their “anointed” political savior.
Guesstimate how many ultra-MAGA “patriots,” blue-collar “evangelicals,” and January 6 Xtians would be convicted and sentenced to a jail sentence for answering the call of their Pharisee-in-Chief to storm the Capitol so that he’d illegally serve a second-term in office.
by MathPlus December 19, 2022
When someone is at home with the oft-counterintuitive properties or numerical idiosyncrasies of the number zero—for example, although zero is neither positive nor negative, it behaves like an “even number.”
To appreciate the power and beauty of Calculus, one must be able to understand zero and to learn to live with it, because if zero is let loose, one can only expect chaos from the numerical troublemaker—one needs to be versed in zeromeracy to tame the “infidel number.”
by MathPlus January 06, 2019
When a country blamed other nations for using their own state-funded vaccines to expand their political and economic influence across the world, and now it is doing the same thing, by promising to donate millions of vaccine doses to developing nations to make up for its geopolitical losses, which arose due to fake political leadership.
To counter China’s and Russia’s vaccine diplomacy in the developing world, the US has succumbed to vaccine hypocrisy, as it plans to donate half a billion Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine doses globally as a desperate attempt to resurrect its comatose leadership on the world stage.
by MathPlus June 10, 2021
A nickname given to someone who wears a different mask every day to match the color of her dress or trousers.
To make mask-wearing a fashion statement during this pandemic, Melania wants others to see her as a mask queen, who doesn’t mask her taste for bright matching colors in the midst of pain and suffering.
by MathPlus May 15, 2021