Numerati's definitions
A period of about π months, as a division of the duration of a woman’s pregnancy, which is less than a hundred days.
by Numerati August 14, 2025
Get the Pimestermug. When math educators (teachers, tutors, writers, editors, consultants, …) come to terms that the human-machine convergence will create both opportunities and risks—it is not just a case of what machines can do versus what humans can do, but rather what tasks they can synergistically achieve together.
HumanAIzed math isn’t a mere fusion of humans and machines working alongside each other, but a cocreation for a new vision of math education.
by Numerati November 28, 2024
Get the HumanAIzed Mathmug. Forcing or motivating yourself to DO-ing some math to beat your daily laziness, especially if you are glued or addicted to your cell phone or digital device for an unhealthy number of hours every day.
Some mathematical do-ness activities that could help white-collar workers break away from their sedentary lifestyle are:
Walk exactly 6789 steps.
Create an origami geometric shape out of the newspaper.
Learn to do calculus—differentiate and integrate—with a soroban (Japanese abacus).
Count the number of ballpoint pens in your house.
Walk exactly 6789 steps.
Create an origami geometric shape out of the newspaper.
Learn to do calculus—differentiate and integrate—with a soroban (Japanese abacus).
Count the number of ballpoint pens in your house.
by Numerati July 29, 2025
Get the Mathematical Do-nessmug. When the number π is hinting to math educators worldwide to turn the wealth of wisdom about her, which has been unearthed over the centuries by thousands of men and women of mathematics, to launch or produce “new” math products that would help them generate a new or rich source of income.
Mathepreneur Ian has identified a few game-changing ideas that have laid hidden in quiet cul-de-sacs in both academia and in publishing houses—he’s doing nothing new but answering to pi calling.
by Numerati January 14, 2025
Get the Pi Callingmug. One day in a week when you abstain from any mathematical activity—no preparing, no problem solving or posing, no marking—to give the left part of your brain a day off, while inviting the right part to take over.
Your mathematical sabbath could prove to be the most productive day of the week, as you let your logical mind recover and reenergize from a hectic week.
by Numerati August 16, 2023
Get the Mathematical Sabbathmug. A symbol-minded person who spends most of his waking hours thinking how to solve the value(s) of x in all kinds of equations, or the range of the values of x in inequalities (or inequations).
Last Christmas, Pastor Jonah mistook an xtremist for the world’s most dangerous fellow on social media, who also happens to be the world’s richest man.
by Numerati October 8, 2024
Get the xtremistmug. When someone doesn’t give a heck or damn if they feel they were or are right or wrong, even if others didn’t or don’t like them because of it.
Leaders can’t lead their sheep effectively unless they give zero fucks to all those oft-unreasonable or biased complains or protests against them.
by Numerati October 7, 2024
Get the Zero Fucksmug.