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A digital crutch used by people who proudly claim to be handicapped with a poor sense of direction or a poor mental map of their surroundings.
Relying on GPS weakens our natural ability to find our own way, while atrophying other cognitive skills that are needed to navigate our oft-complicated lives—we need to resurrect the lost art of getting out of our comfort zone and finding our way without a map or GPS.
by MathPlus February 20, 2018
Get the GPSmug. The art of predicting someone’s future from the number of infections or deaths in a given community or country at a given time, and their birth date.
Fortunetellers in some remote parts of Asia are profiting from coviderology, by advising gullible clients whether or not they should travel hundreds of miles to the nearest city to get vaccinated.
by MathPlus May 4, 2021
Get the Coviderologymug. When Donald J. Trump thought he experienced an aha! in the middle of the night after his Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) lies-plagued speech that trademarking part of his name, if approved, would swiftly help him pay his bigly debts and mounting legal fees without having to serially cook the books.
by MathPlus March 2, 2021
Get the Trump™mug. Also known as “MAGA-in-Chief” to ex-president Trump’s hardcore white supporters, who believe that their “anointed” boss lost the election due to “fraudulent” black votes. A notorious title that was unprovenly conferred by both world and religious leaders, who breathed a sign of relief when the corrupt president was rejected and ejected from the White House, whom they also nicknamed as “Commander in Cheat.”
No US President or head of state has received so many titles other than North Korean dictator-and-murderer Kim Jong-un: Liar-in-Chief, Pinocchio-in-Chief, Fraudster-in-Chief, …, MAGA in Cheat, Insurrectionist-in-Chief, White Supremacist-in-Chief, to cite a few common ones.
by MathPlus July 17, 2021
Get the MAGA in Cheatmug. When a math teacher decides not to hurt the feelings of their weak students, by insincerely using large numbers and symbols to grade their test paper—for example, a student receiving back their exam paper with a score of (√81)/90 or 4²/100, mistaking it for 81/100 or 42/100.
Some parents object to teachers’ “mathematical sensitivity” or fake feedback, preferring that they’d tell their child the painful truth how poorly they had performed in their math test.
by MathPlus November 30, 2020
Get the Mathematical Sensitivitymug. An irrational number that is traditionally defined with respect to the circle, such as the following:
The length of a semicircle of radius one unit.
The angle measure of a straight line segment in radians.
The number of times the perimeter of a circle is more than its diameter.
The length of a semicircle of radius one unit.
The angle measure of a straight line segment in radians.
The number of times the perimeter of a circle is more than its diameter.
To help students appreciate π beyond the canned definition that it is the ratio of circumference to diameter, teachers ought to define it in terms of other quantities not related to the circle.
by MathPlus January 21, 2021
Get the πmug. Fiendish math questions that are likely to get someone mentally constipated, or to make them feel logically disgusted, if they attempt to solving them without any formal training or preparation.
Like olympiad math, chili math should be introduced only to mathematically precocious kids lest the questions prove logically repugnant to immature or young minds.
by MathPlus March 2, 2021
Get the Chili Mathmug.