Also known as “New Age Math.” When the buzzword “mindful” subliminally conveys the idea that one can master the most disliked school subject, by cultivating a relaxed mind for the brain to focus on what is required in a math question—a mind-over-math approach via meditation and relaxation to reduce fear and failure.
The math education industry hasn’t been spared by the Mindfulness Movement, which is promoting “Mindful Math” programs countrywide to target the math-anxious kids of the rich and the famous—they’re preaching the feel-good gospel that math success is more psychological than logical.
by MathPlus February 07, 2018
Short for “negative editor.” A “word doctor” who messes up a manuscript, by creating more work and headache for everyone else—he adds in more shit to an oft-shitty raw manuscript.
Dr. Smith gave up on his publisher after the management refused to change the neditor, who was assigned to his math project.
by MathPlus January 28, 2018
Someone with skills in “left brain” (math, data, analytics) and “right brain” (creative, intuitive, subconscious) disciplines—the horizontal line on the top stands for breadth of knowledge across domains, while the vertical lines represent two areas of depth knowledge.
Most math teachers are I-shaped; some are T-shaped (a generalist to a shallow level with a depth of skill in one field), and very few are π-shaped persons.
by MathPlus August 20, 2021
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
The suspected Judas in President Trump’s administration, who stabbed his boss in the back, by writing a treasonous letter to the newspaper to expose his irrational and amoral behaviors, and to reveal why his staff deliberately withheld information from him.
Could Trump anonymous betrayer-writer ever be identified, assuming that he or she is not a New York Times staff writer who ghostwrote the op-ed to discredit the President?
by MathPlus September 09, 2018
When the rates of vaccination in the United States are lowest among Trumpublicans, religious folks, and conspiracists in red states, compared to higher inoculation rates among those who voted for Joe Biden nationwide.
That there is a positive correlation between vaccination and votes in the US is unmistakable, because vaccination is political there, which means that more infections and fatalities in the face of the deadlier delta and delta-plus variants are expected in states with high proportions of unvaccinated people.
by MathPlus July 20, 2021
While the world is tired and sick of her, Ms. Corona is healthier and deadlier than ever to prolong her existence on the planet, by seducing more maskless victims; and she is even prepared to journey with those who are heading to the fiery side of eternity.
The coronavirus desires to live and linger among the earthlings, especially those who have faith in pseudoscience and conspiracies—although we are sick of her, Covid-19 is not sick of us.
by MathPlus November 10, 2020