MathPlus's definitions

Coronaffiti

When Singapore with strict graffiti laws sounds open to designating spaces where graffiti is allowed—a form of vandalistic inoculation—especially for folks to vent out their frustrations about the government’s half-baked reactive measures in containing the high infection and mortality rates, as the “fine” city experiments to live with Covid in the endemic new normal.

Arts critics have mixed feelings about Singapore’s semi-openness in allowing coronaffiti at some designated locations, because some artistically talented actors from the Opposition could be a pain in the brain in exposing the 4G leaders’ recurring hypocrisy and ineptitude in solving the corona crisis.

by MathPlus October 7, 2021

Mask Queen

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 14, 2021

A Mask for Math

When the effort or resourcefulness of tens of thousands of math tutors in Singapore covers up most local school teachers’ poor teaching pedagogies or methodologies and their low enthusiasm or creativity, thus exonerating the latter in making the subject appear dull and boring and unconnected to real life.

If there was a months-long lockdown in Singapore due to the pandemic, except for the thousands of families who can’t afford private tuition for their children, the math grades of the majority of middle-class students wouldn’t significantly suffer, because of a mask for math culture that has permeated the entire educational system for decades.

by MathPlus September 12, 2021

Coronalized

A bourgeois word for “infected,” which may sound like being colonized by an army of invisible deadly coronaviruses.

Guesstimate how many diehard Trumpublicans and QAnonists could have avoided being coronalized in 2021 had they religiously or selflessly gone for their shot.

by MathPlus October 2, 2021

Math Currency

When sharing useful, light-hearted, or creative math stuff to fellow math educators around the globe gives them an opportunity to know you and to recommend you to interested parties that might need someone with your expertise to meet their mathematical needs or wants.

In addition to performance currency (when you deliver upon a product above people’s expectations) and relationship currency (when you take the time to connect, engage, and get to know people in your milieu), you need math currency to make yourself an odd in a sea of evens.

by MathPlus October 28, 2021

Singapore

The destination of choice for millionaires and billionaires from Indonesia, China, India, Europe, and the United States during the pandemic, because of the island state’s relative low infection, mortality, and crime rates, compared to the rest of the developed world, where white racism or supremacism, nativism, and xenophobia, often condoned by right-wing inept politicians, are at an all-time high.

More than a tax haven for the filthy rich from both the East and the West, Singapore is now a “corona sanctuary” for the wealthy and the celebrities escaping the ravages of the pandemic sweeping their countries, whose oft-ill-run health systems leave much to be desired.

by MathPlus July 4, 2021

Blind Faith

When the ghosts of atheists, agnostics, or nominal believers who had their lives cut short by the pandemic on earth would still visit their place of worship every week or month to pray for themselves and their loved ones, while they are waiting in transit for the outcome of their eternal home.

Dave’s spirit, who was rekindled by blind faith, would show up on the first and fifteenth days at the temple to pray for the gods and goddesses of good health and prosperity to bless his siblings and schoolmates, and sometimes even for his bosses-turned-bullies.

by MathPlus March 18, 2022