The long-overdue title for millions of anti-maskers and maskholes around the world, whose selfish actions only prolong the coronavirus pandemic on earth, and lead to more infections and deaths—they need to come to terms that their constant refusal to don a face mask in public has serious consequences, such as fines, push-ups, and jail sentences (or even caning or deportation in some extreme cases).
The author of “Mask Wearing for Dummies” hinted to his publisher that he’s concurrently writing “Lockdown for Dummies” and “COVID-19 Vaccines for Dummies” targeting at millions of covidiots, particularly the diehard Trumpists and hardcore QAnonists from the red states, who get most of their corona advice from their Maskhole-in-Chief.
by MathPlus May 01, 2021

When there have never been so many public queries worldwide on the coronavirus to the authorities, as millions of infected people seek direction and admission into hospitals, and millions of others dialed to inquire about unemployment benefits and corona assistance for folded-up businesses.
Guesstimate how many Covid-📱calls were made globally during the lockdowns, as the number of infections and deaths show no signs of abating.
by MathPlus November 28, 2020

An unethical “word doctor” who has no qualms divulging his company’s publishing secrets to the competitors to enhance his visibility or marketability, so that he can poached by them if he gets fired or retrenched.
Jack was dismissed within hours after his boss found out that he was leaking the company’s new titles to a key competitor, which had since recruited the rogue editor without questions.
by MathPlus August 07, 2018

An educator who creates beautiful or elegant math, by mixing and matching ideas from different disciplines to vow their audience—they are neither generalist or specialist, who use creative ways to convey difficult math concepts, or are bewitched to come up with intuitive or elegant solutions to math problems.
If math teachers, editors, and writers thought like a math DJ, the public perception of math being a dull or difficult school subject would be a thing of the past.
by MathPlus August 20, 2021

When the brain function of patients with severe Covid-19 could be impaired, as the virus could invade the frontal lobe through nerves in the nose.
Those suffering from Covid-🧠 are likely to have movement disorders like tremor or seizures, which can cause problems with planning and social behavior.
by MathPlus March 15, 2021

Math titles that marry decent quality with affordability—authors must be racially, religiously, and sexually sensitive, while the Ministry of Education (MOE) controls the price of the books.
Because Singapore math books cost a fraction of their American counterparts, US distributors have been importing them for homeschoolers, who think they're getting value-for-money textbooks—a number of them might even mistake Singapore for a city in China.
by MathPlus August 11, 2016

When most K–12 Singapore math writers would find it almost irresistible not to set questions on Covid-19 and its variants, masks, vaccines, and lockdowns, by adding some context to their content in their new manuscripts, unless their publishers think that it is morbid or a bad omen to do so, by rationalizing that the product of two negatives (people’s fear of math and of the virus) is not a positive in this case.
As Singapore reluctantly lives with Covid, it’s understandable that those who had lost loved ones to Covid-19 have reservations about Singapore math going endemic in this new normal.
by MathPlus November 04, 2021
