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When Covid-19 has a hidden price attached to it: those living alone or in nursing homes; those disregarding public health measures to protect themselves and others; and those losing their loved ones prematurely or their jobs suddenly.
Be it opportunist corrupt or inept politicians lying to the public to remain in power, selfish customers hoarding essential items, or covidiots refusing to wear a mask or practicing social distancing, they all have to pay for their actions (and inactions)—the cost of the coronavirus is just a breath, lie, or inconvenience away.
by MathPlus March 30, 2021
Get the The Cost of the Coronavirusmug. What the seven members in the quadrilateral squad—parallelogram, rectangle, square, rhombus, kite, trapezoid, isosceles trapezoid—desire to be known as, because they all want to join the Polygon fraternity.
Like the triangle who recently branded itself as a trigon, all quadrilateral hope that in the new year they would all love to be identified as a quadgon.
by MathPlus April 21, 2018
Get the Quadgonmug. The mutated strand of coronavirus from the “fine” city that is deadly to kids, as fictionally claimed by Opposition politicians in the Land of the Gandhis, which could usher in India’s third wave, if zero flights between Singapore and India are not enforced.
The authorities refuted the idea of the “Singapore variant,” which seems more like the Opposition in Delhi poking fun at the ineptitude of PM Modi and his team in containing the pandemic crisis.
by MathPlus May 18, 2021
Get the Singapore Variantmug. A trademarked term that may be likened to the mathematical equivalent of illegally parking in a disabled parking space.
Math educators remarked that trademarking "Singapore Math" is a form of "mathematical hijacking"—what else can we expect after Singapore Math®? Singapore Math 2.0™?
by MathPlus March 27, 2017
Get the Singapore Math®mug. A four-letter word that most people would avoid talking about because they live their sinful lives as if mercy has no due date, or that they would have the time to turn away from their unethical or destructive behaviors, or to repent from their sins, at the eleventh hour.
CEOs and dictators, who think that they’re not as evil as the Hitlers, Stalins, and the Osamas, reason that because hell has reached full capacity, their chances of being redirected to heaven are pretty high in spite of their manifold transgressions.
by MathPlus July 28, 2022
Get the Hellmug. 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 9, 2021
Get the Thou Needn’t Wear a Maskmug. When digital pirates from notorious copyright-violating countries like India, Pakistan, and Nigeria are blatantly sharing Singapore math e-books, students’ and teachers’ resources, and textbook solutions; or are selling them at a fraction of their actual prices.
To tens of thousands of students and teachers in the developing world, the Napsterization of Singapore math looks more like the democratization rather than the illegal dissemination of Singapore math materials to help raise their quantitative literacy at zero costs or for the price of a few megabytes.
by MathPlus November 25, 2021
Get the The Napsterization of Singapore Mathmug.