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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 6, 2019
Get the Zeromeracy mug.When math teachers reluctantly have to come to terms with new habits that would help them to keep their jobs in the new normal or post-pandemic, be it switching to more Zoom lessons in the aftermath of new lockdowns, monitoring students’ oft-unsatisfactory progress on Google Classroom, or communicating with ever-demanding parents on WhatsApp.
How many math educators worldwide decide to retire prematurely, as they can’t cope with the new normal math demands expected of them in the light of new waves of infection plaguing their nations?
by MathPlus April 25, 2021
Get the New Normal Math mug.The state when you are making the right or sensible decisions as anyone else—you need to make the "wrong decision," by doing the very opposite to stand out from the crowd.
If you don't want to be trapped, do the unreasonable thing, by taking the "bad decisions"—the safe decision often has boredom, danger, or poverty written all over it.
by MathPlus June 19, 2017
Get the Trapped mug.When gender remains a sensitive issue in many so-called liberal developed countries, even as religious leaders and politically correct politicians preach about an all-inclusive society, where there should be zero discrimination against those with different sexual orientations.
Should arguments for X and why, or against it, be used to decide whether transgender people born with a mutated gene make-up be allowed to use both male and female public toilets?
by MathPlus November 18, 2018
Get the X and Why mug.Read as “Trump’s R naught or reproduction rate.” The average number of people superspreader Donald J. Trump would have infected due to his selfish, callous, and vainglorious attitude vis-à-vis the coronavirus, which could number in the dozens, as most of them had paid lip service to mask-wearing and social distancing when they were with him.
Guesstimate Trump’s R₀ and the R₀ of all those he infected. Could the total figure be in the hundreds thanks to a fake leader’s inept handling of the Covid-19 pandemic?
by MathPlus October 3, 2020
Get the Trump’s R₀ mug.When high-income countries with high vaccination rates would almost have to beg or coax their citizens to get their third booster shots rather than giving or selling their surplus or hoarded vaccines to developing nations, where the people long to get jabbed.
Nations guilty of immoral vaccination only agree to donate their near-expiry vaccines to desperate pro-Western developing countries, or decide to practice “dose sharing” with another developed country that has a low vaccination rate and a low supply of Western vaccines.
by MathPlus September 4, 2021
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Moonlighting school math teachers in Singapore have been pressured by some owners of tuition or enrichment math centers to come up with at least twenty-five brain-unfriendly Christmas pi questions to meet the mathematical needs and wants of their restless, bored students.
by MathPlus December 7, 2021
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