When you design your customer’s experience in such a way that it ends up on a high note—think of IKEA customers looking forward for their favorite hotdog after they have frustratingly lined up to the check-out counters.
To get the customers to return, apply the hotdog formula to your business: offer them something positive, which would make them forget about any inconveniences they’ve experienced—put them in a positive frame of mind at the end of their shopping trip.
by MathPlus July 26, 2018
Read as “Covid-beta.” Also known as the B.1.351 or “Beta” variant. The South African variant, which has been detected in at least 40-odd countries, is believed to evade antibodies, thus making recovered infected people despite their existing immunity prone to reinfection.
Insufficient data cannot conclude whether Covid-β causes more severe illness than earlier versions of the coronavirus, or whether current vaccines may be less effective for this variant, which may also be transmitted faster.
by MathPlus August 30, 2021
When someone decides to coin a math word or phrase, or to redefine an existing one, without fear of being censured, rebuked, punished, or fired.
Urban Dictionary remains the social platform of choice for mathematically irreverent writers, who just want to sexify or spice the most boring or disliked school subject for millions of students worldwide.
by MathPlus November 24, 2020
When educators worldwide join forces to pose grades pre-K–12 Covid-19-related math questions, and to encourage students to have a shot at them, which aims at honing their problem solving skills and protecting them against illogical or irrational thinking.
With millions of people presently being vaccinated against COVID-19, the time couldn’t be more apt during this pandemic for math teachers and homeschoolers to promote the “Get Your Math Jab!” slogan to their students and children.
by MathPlus April 30, 2021
When the mind’s eye could see clearly how fake, irresponsible, or inept political leaders’ selfish actions (and inactions) led to the world’s failure to contain the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
In the aftermath of many leaders’ fake 2020 vision, even with vaccination presently being rolled out in many developed countries, life in 2021 is unlikely to return to its pre-pandemic days.
by MathPlus January 05, 2021
The common value of π covertly used by the LGBT+ mathematical community, which appears to change based on geography for nonobvious reasons.
Statistician Jerry is seeking a “rainbow grant” from some tech companies to determine why queer pi differs in different counties or countries.
by MathPlus October 16, 2021
German math textbooks that were used during the reign of Adolf Hitler in the Second World War, whose word problems often mockingly or sickeningly demonize the “undesirables.”
One 1941 Nazi math question is: “Every day, the state spends RM 6 on one cripple; RM 4 1/2on one mentally ill person; RM 5 1/2 on one deaf and dumb person; RM 5 3/5 on one feeble-minded person; RM 3 on one alcoholic; RM 4 4/5 on one pupil in care; RM 2 1/10 on one pupil at a special school; and RM 9/20 for one pupil at a normal school. Calculate the expenditure of the state for one pupil in a special school and one pupil in an ordinary school over eight years and state the amount of higher cost engendered by the special school pupil.”
by MathPlus December 30, 2020