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A discount of not less than 19 percent for any buyer of math titles in Singapore, who has been jabbed by WHO-approved vaccines, as long as they show proof of their inoculation at the time of purchase.
To encourage vaccination among the population, especially among those who wished not to be inoculated because of potential side effects or premature death, local publishers in Singapore are resorting to creative marketing to promote a number of their dated Singapore MathⓋ titles.
by MathPlus January 18, 2021
Get the Singapore MathⓋmug. When more creative work would likely to be produced if companies were to extend the two-day weekend to five, so that employees only report to the office two instead of five days a week.
Since much work seems to get done during the weekend than on any weekdays, isn’t it apt for the workforce to implement a 5-day weekend, with workers reporting to work, say, on Thursday and Friday every week, since most people just love Friday but loathe Monday?
by MathPlus January 14, 2019
Get the 5-Day Weekendmug. Juicy talks in mathematical circles on who are working on which projects or proofs, or who have been offered tenure, especially among the “office politicians” who were unprovenly promoted based on their close or intimate relationship with the boss rather than on their published papers and teaching awards.
Stabbing each other on the back, bitching about promoted or demoted fellow colleagues, and the like are part and parcel of tabloid math conversation, which preoccupies the minds of thousands of frustrated or marginalized mathematicians at lunchtime.
by MathPlus March 8, 2021
Get the Tabloid Mathmug. The interest percentage of choice among billions of borrowers or buyers worldwide as banks and businesses turn them into debtors, who are being lured to go on credit for products or services they don’t have the means to pay for.
Free interest, or 0% interest, is a financial drug that has kept millions in debt in exchange for instant gain or future pain.
by MathPlus August 11, 2022
Get the 0%mug. 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
Get the Bar Model Methodmug. When math teachers in a school or state can’t see eye to eye on the degree of accuracy the number π should be given in a math question—for example, should the students be asked to take π to be 22/7 or 3.14?
In the aftermath of the “Pi Brexit” war, a red state in the US has recorded at least a dozen resignations from hardcore evangelical math teachers, who refuse to bulge unless the schools agree to use the biblical value of three for π.
by MathPlus October 16, 2021
Get the Pi Brexitmug. When mostly corrupt or undemocratic developing countries blame the rich nations for hoarding the vaccines and expect them to fund their vaccination needs on moral grounds, as few could afford to buy them for their own citizens—when beggars become choosers and accusers, and donors are viewed as hoarders and betrayers.
WHO argues that vaccine inequality threatens global Covid-19 recovery, but avoids to address the root causes for the poor health systems plaguing most developing nations.
by MathPlus April 17, 2021
Get the Vaccine Inequalitymug.