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Short for “Vegan Math.” Math titles that indirectly promote a vegan lifestyle, by having zero questions on diary products like meat and milk, and excluding any brain-unfriendly chickens-and-rabbits and eggs word problems.
Math publishers are pressuring their meat-eating textbook authors for a V Math edition, by replacing questions on eggs, chocolate bars, and the like with non-diary products to target the millions of students and teachers with a vegan or vegetarian diet worldwide.
by MathPlus February 16, 2021
Get the V Mathmug. When there is an imbalance in opportunity between one math student and another—say, for instance, between a student born in Singapore and one born in Sudan; or one attending a neighborhood school and another one in an elite or private school—which can be reduced or eliminated by affirmative action policies or by government grants or subsidies.
Covid-19 has exposed the mathematical entropy between those who can afford to study from home and those without a computer or internet connection.
by MathPlus November 25, 2020
Get the Mathematical Entropymug. When profit-driven manufacturers would be launching a range of vaccines that aim to target specific Covid-19 variants, with varying pricing based on their infectivity, transmissivity, and mortality rates—for example, the vaccine for the more transmissible Omicron variant may cost less than the vaccine for the deadlier Delta variant.
With current booster shots proving to be semi-effective against Covid-19, manufacturers’ next creative move is to come up with designer vaccines to further boost their profitability.
by MathPlus January 25, 2022
Get the Designer Vaccinemug. The opposite of diversity, which white racists or supremacists unashamedly embrace, because having non-white smarter staff or colleagues in the workplace would threaten their job security and expose their bigotry and ineptitude.
Trump’s dieversity strategy benefits him and his cronies in the short term, but not the once-known country of opportunity for everybody willing to work hard and smart.
by MathPlus March 3, 2021
Get the Dieversitymug. Fiendish math questions posed by mean or sadistic math teachers that leverage on the deadlier delta to further terrify an oft-semi-innumerate lay public, who are often more fearful about discriminants and differentials than variants and vaccines.
Guesstimate what percentage of math anxious folks globally are more scared of delta math than the delta variant itself.
by MathPlus October 12, 2021
Get the Delta Mathmug. When the student who fails to solve an exam math question decides to sue the teacher or school by falsely claiming that the question is incorrectly posed or that it has allegedly more than one valid answer, which is unfair to the problem solver.
Don was such a bigly loser for failing to answer more than half of the SAT math questions that his parents have frivolously filed three lawsuits against the teacher, the principal, and the school for math fraud.
by MathPlus November 5, 2020
Get the Math Fraudmug. When the crisp-and-crude method of calculation, which yields an approximate instead of an exact answer to a problem, is done on a mask rather than on an envelope or a napkin.
With billions of people wearing a face mask to shield themselves against the coronavirus, the back-of-the-mask thinking is a lifelong guesstimation skill math teachers and tutors worldwide ought to promote to students during this pandemic crisis.
by MathPlus September 20, 2020
Get the Back-of-the-Mask Thinkingmug.