Numerati's definitions
Math problems titles filled with oft-minimalist information that tend to put off or confuse math-anxious people, who may find them mentally nauseating or brain-unfriendly.
Like wasabi peas and sushis, wallet-friendly wasabi math titles from Asian and Communist countries would petrify the majority of K–12 American students and their teachers, who’re spoon-fed with drill-and-kill questions.
by Numerati November 24, 2024
Get the Wasabi Mathmug. When the conscious effort of coming up with an apt model drawing that connects the knowns and unknowns in a math word problem can enhance the readability or elegance of a solution—when a “look-see” proof could arouse an aha! in the problem solver.
If only more math educators were to practice mindful modeling, the number of students or homeschoolers embracing Singapore’s bar model method could potentially increase ten folds in no time.
by Numerati June 11, 2025
Get the Mindful Modelingmug. Pi-related paintings or dreams that most people wouldn’t dare to talk about or share with others, because a large proportion of the content or event looks surreal, weird, abnormal, or occultic.
What are the chances that the roots of pirealism are demonic or satanic, or are the result of the influences of psychedelic drugs?
by Numerati November 25, 2023
Get the Pirealismmug. The mathematical equivalent of a child riding a tricycle before switching to a bicycle, or using a float while learning to swim—using bar diagrams instead of forming algebraic equations to solve word problems.
Bar modeling, which is the heart and soul of the Singapore math curriculum, acts a bridge between elementary (or primary) math and middle school (or secondary) math—where concrete rectangles or bars are used instead of abstract variables for unknown quantities.
by Numerati December 28, 2024
Get the Bar Modelingmug. The source that gives rise to art or contributes to a painting—unlike a dimensionless point with no length, area, or depth, a tiny dot still has an area.
A point may be likened to an idealized dot, which has been reduced to what mathematicians call an “infinitesimal.”
by Numerati November 24, 2023
Get the Dotmug. When the number π perpetually ponders about “π”—whether she could forever command trust and respect among fellow numerical constants and in the mathematical community so that they would always think of her first.
Like e and 𝜙, π feels overworked and burned out. What are the odds that to some degree she’d be suffering from the meta-pi syndrome?
by Numerati January 17, 2025
Get the Meta-pimug. An era marked by a rekindling or renewing interest in the number π thanks to social media and the metaverse, which has helped reveal its lesser-known beauty and power in many spheres of life, especially among an oft-semi-innumerate or math-anxious lay public.
The pinaissance has opened new business opportunities for mathepreneurs to propagate the gospel of π in popular culture.
by Numerati March 7, 2025
Get the Pinaissancemug.