MathPlus's definitions

Piccine

A one-time vaccine, touted by dubious pharmaceutical companies, that allegedly helps boost someone’s mathematical brain, by activating their atrophied cerebral cells to think more logically, rationally, and critically—a jab that could shoot their IQ to no fewer than a dozen points.

Rogue doctors from China, India, and Nigeria are discretely or secretly promoting piccine shots to gullible villagers, when they come down to get their partially trialed Covid-19 jabs.

by MathPlus May 29, 2021

Math Shot

When publishers or bookstores decide to offer a big discount to vaccinated customers keen to hone their mathematical problem-solving or guesstimation skills, who show their vaccination card and the math book to the cashier—a promotion to get kids, parents, and teachers all jabbed to minimize infection or reinfection, not to say, hospitalization.

At a popular bookstore, the math shot promotion for a set of four Singapore math textbooks and workbooks is: “$39 with Shots; $144 sans Shots.”

by MathPlus May 30, 2021

Vietnamese Variant

A “very dangerous” hybrid of the two highly transmissible Indian and UK Covid-19 strains, whose infectivity, transmissivity, and lethality levels have yet to be unveiled by Vietnam's health ministry.

Arrange the following corona mutants in ascending order in terms of their deadliness: Indian variant, South African variant, UK variant, Vietnamese variant.

by MathPlus May 31, 2021

Viral Inequality

When some corona variants see themselves more powerful or attention-grabbing than others, because of their higher rate of infection, transmission, or destruction.

Just when the UK and Indian Covid-19 strains thought they were the most dangerous viruses plaguing the world, the Vietnamese or North Korean variant could outwit them both, thus showing that the viral inequality between present variants and new hybrids is getting wider over time.

by MathPlus May 31, 2021

Pibability

The chance or likelihood that something happening in a given situation is approximately π% or 3.14%.

An arguably pibability result is the percentage of math teachers worldwide who give a heck about the number pi, be it looking for its presence in the least expected places, or numerologically divining their future via the seemingly random decimal digits of the “sacred number.”

by MathPlus April 19, 2021

Masiku

Short for “mask haiku.” A three-line poem, written in a 5-7-5 syllable count, that can help activate the oft-atrophied right part of the brain, which is responsible for creativity in the arts.

Let’s indulge in some masikus.

MASK & MATH

Both hide much from us.
If we could see what’s behind
Fear would have to flee.

THE MASK OF MATH

Math won’t reveal much
Until we use our mind’s eye
To see its beauty.

THE MATH OF MASK

Mask diplomacy.
China and Russia ship them
By the ten millions.

by MathPlus April 20, 2021

Maskerick

A limerick on the mixed messages mask wearing is sending to the public, be it as a symbol of political rebellion against the authorities, the selfish attitude by maskholes whose inept leader mocked mask-wearers, or as a protective shield against infection even for vaccinated folks.

A maskerick that was composed in the aftermath of mask myths propagated by some selfish diehard Trumpists or QAnonists is:

Three maskholes-finalists emerged for the ignoble “Maskhole of the Year” award.
Donald J. Trump, Rand Paul, and Ted Cruz from a dirty dozen names put forward.
From the unholy trinity, who refuse to wear a face mask in public out of sheer vanity,
Whose odds are the highest in clinching the notorious prize on this side of eternity?
Wouldn’t it be a surprise if one Trumpublican beats his vain boss for the reward?

by MathPlus April 20, 2021