MathPlus's definitions

Coronaism

An ideology that preaches that evil has descended on Earth through the visitation of a virus to remind its inhabitants to turn away from their sinful, depraved, or unnatural ways, because their failure to do so would only quicken the global apocalypse by a few decades.

From facism to communism to Islamism, is coronaism the new supremacism or terrorism?

by MathPlus July 25, 2021

19/19

The perfect score for an online time-based math test in a lockdown or in the new normal, because for most teachers, 19 is the new 100.

Which flawless score is psychologically less intimidating in assessing home-based learning students: 19/19, 50/50, or 100/100?

by MathPlus July 26, 2021

Toilet Paper

The panic purchase of choice among millions of customers in the developed world during the coronavirus pandemic—when hoarding of the coveted item exposed the ugly side of humanity in terms of irrational fear and selfishness.

What is the world’s most number of toilet paper rolls one person had bought at one shot before the supermarkets nationwide ran out of them?

by MathPlus July 27, 2021

Maskism

When the authorities try to indoctrinate an oft-frightened or semi-informed lay public that mask-wearing is mandatory to protect them against the coronavirus, regardless of whether they are vaccinated or not, even though their knowledge with regard to the extent to which masking is effective against deadlier variants of the virus is half-baked.

With rising infection and mortality rates in spite of a decent rate of vaccination in the population, a number of governments in the West are turning to maskism to contain the corona crisis in the face of deadlier variants.

by MathPlus July 27, 2021

Masked by Math

When someone’s worth as a person in society is often defined by their grade in school math, which means that the odds of their securing a promising career or future look bleak if they were not born with the “mathematical gene” or didn’t have a silver-spoon upbringing.

Guesstimate how many millions of otherwise intelligent people worldwide have their dreams dashed every year, because the course they plan to study in college requires them to have a passing grade in math or statistics or calculus—in other words, what percentage of the world’s population has been unfairly or unjustifiably been masked by math?

by MathPlus July 27, 2021

Corona Olympics

When deadlier variants of Covid-19 from different countries compete with each other to see which of them could cause the most damage or pain to earthlings until effective vaccination forces them to journey to other planets.

At the 2021 Corona Olympics, which country is likely to strike gold in both the infection and mortality events? A nation with low vaccination rate; or one that is continually plagued with nationwide protests, where citizens’ personal choices with regard to masking and vaccination overrule any political mandate to protect themselves and others?

by MathPlus July 27, 2021

Piralysis

A mental condition when the irrational number π suffers occasional bouts of depression, especially during a pandemic, when fewer theorems on pi grace the pages of reputable math journals and periodicals.

As the most beloved constant in mathematics, it’s not surprising that π is prone to piralysis every now and then, as it pops up in fewer proofs from delayed publications that came out when the world was on lockdown.

by MathPlus July 27, 2021