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Bar Model Method

A problem-solving visualization heuristic that is the heart of the Singapore math curriculum, whose copyright is being contested by both China and Russia (or even Japan), because they claimed that the “look-see” methodology used to solve challenging word problems in elementary grades originated from them.

In the aftermath of the Singapore’s claim that they and the Canadian songwriter Hugh Harrison own the copyright to the “Count on Me, Singapore” song rather than the Indian composer Joseph Mendoza, China and Russia now want Singapore to compensate them for “plagiarizing” the bar model method for over three decades—unprovenly, it’s their tit-for-tat message to high-GDP Singapore for not approving their home-made, half-baked vaccines.

by MathPlus March 20, 2021

Sinovated

Being jabbed with China’s home-made, half-baked Covid-19 vaccine, which has so far received zero approval for use from developed countries, but instead is being donated to most African and Middle East countries as part of the country’s vaccine diplomacy.

With the rich nations hoarding the “branded vaccines,” most of the developing countries have no choice but to have their citizens sinovated rather than let them wait to be jabbed with their preferred vaccines.

by MathPlus March 20, 2021

Give a Shit!

Do your best in whatever you do, especially when no one is around, and don’t expect anything in return for your good deeds—live as if it is your last day on earth.

If only more people’s mantra were “Give a shit!” regardless whether their boss likes them or not, or whether they’re fairly being treated, heaven would be overcrowded.

by MathPlus March 20, 2021

🦠🔢

Short for “Corona Mathematica” in emoji. The title of the irreverent creative problem solving math book that capitalizes on the fears of the coronavirus pandemic and the world’s most disliked school subject to educate readers that fear in all forms and shapes is more often psychological than logical.

Which is scarier: Math or Covid-19? Maybe after tackling the brain-unfriendly or fiendish questions in 🦠🔢, the irrational fear associated with Math or Covid-19 can prove to be mostly delusional or paranoiac.

by MathPlus March 21, 2021

Who wants a Covaxin jab?

The dreaded vaccination question everyone in Africa and Asia is avoiding to answer even as India continues to donate millions of its home-grown, half-baked vaccine, which has received zero approval from WHO, to the developing world as part of its vaccine diplomacy—when the locals themselves have near-zero faith in their own vaccine.

In and outside India, the question to ask shouldn’t be “Who wants a Covaxin jab?” but rather “Who doesn’t want a Covaxin jab?”

by MathPlus March 21, 2021

Mask Trading

The latest product forex exchanges are keen to introduce to investors during this pandemic crisis, especially when mask wearing is likely to remain mandatory or be strongly recommended long after the populations of most countries have been vaccinated.

During this year’s new lockdowns, a number of bogus companies were charged for cheating gullible investors of over $10 million, by promising them an average of 20 percents returns in financing mask trading activities.

by MathPlus March 22, 2021

Pi Moment

When the public announcement of the proof of a famous unsolved problem on π turned out to be short-lived, because the result was later found to contain grave errors.

Mathematicians worldwide were excited to hear that the number (π + e) has been proved to be transcendental (i.e., its value can’t be the root of an algebraic equation with rational coefficients), but the news was nothing but a pi moment.

by MathPlus March 22, 2021