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Space

What you need if you want to represent nothing with nothing.

What’s the difference between nothing and zero? Is one the empty space and the other one a numeral?

by MathPlus December 31, 2018

Ban Apartheid

When high-GDP countries often sans scientific basis would unitedly react irrationally or paranoiacally, by banning travelers from a developing country, where the allegedly deadliest variant of Covid-19 has been caught, which may escape the protection of any WHO-approved vaccines—when their economic supremacy can afford them to act selfishly with quasi-zero penalty in return.

Imagine if the omicron variant were discovered in the UK or the US instead of South Africa, it’s unlikely that most Western and some Asian countries would implement a travel ban on the natural resources-rich nation within hours of the official announcement of the discovery of the mutant—like vaccine apartheid, doesn’t their quick action characterize ban apartheid?

by MathPlus November 28, 2021

Mathematical Steroid

Short-term success in math, whereby exam-smart teachers and tutors drill or spoon-feed students, by getting them to memorize modeled solutions of questions that are likely to appear in the coming examination based on previously set questions from past exam papers.

It’s not surprising that most university students in Singapore, who are reading for a degree in math, struggle with their courses because they grew up on mathematical steroids in high school.

by MathPlus December 7, 2021

Pi Approximation Day

An annual math event that is commemorated on 22nd July (22/7) among billions of people worldwide, who conventionally write their date in the DD/MM/YYYY format, compared to the millions of folks who celebrate Pi Day on March 14 (3/14).

What is the ratio of the number of math students and teachers globally who celebrate Pi Approximation Day in July to the number of those who commemorate Pi Day in March every year.

by MathPlus July 23, 2021

Math Con-sultant

A symbol-minded person who knows all 64 main intimate positions, including their 200+ variations, but struggles to get a date except with bots or digital dolls.

Guesstimate how many folks in academia, who consult or moonlight for publishing houses worldwide, are in fact math con-sultants, whose names on textbook covers could potentially yield a higher adoption rate among local or regional schools, especially among titles-minded teachers and parents.

by MathPlus May 1, 2023

MAGA

Short for “Make America Godly Again.” A mantra preached by a group of evangelical pastors, who had brainwashed diehard supporters of Trump, the “anointed one,” by proclaiming that there exists a parallel between Trump and Jesus, who have both come to deliver and save them—they need to stand up for Trump, who had selfishly used religious leaders as pawns and disinformation to incite an insurrection.

Evangelical leaders who risk losing (or have sold) their souls for grasping political power are preaching Trumpism or white supremacy under the flag of Christian nationalism—aren’t their preaching the political slogan MAGA, instead of the Magi, a stumbling block to millions of pre-believers of Christianity?

by MathPlus January 22, 2021

Corona Tattoo

When ICU patients decide to have a tattoo to remember for the rest of their lives that they were given a second chance to live, when the odds of their recovering from Covid-19 were quasi-zero.

Jeff had a corona tattoo of the green angry-looking coronavirus on his arm, which is often depicted on health pamphlets to warn the public of the risks of not wearing a face mask and not practicing social distancing in public places.

by MathPlus June 25, 2021