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Pi Prank

Some silly, reckless, or deadly act underperforming or poorly motivated students perform on their oft-mean teacher on Pi Day, be it for fun, malice, or revenge—when these rowdies or troublemakers want to get even with adults on this most popular date in the math calendar.
Playing pi pranks like throwing a whole pizza at a teacher’s face and ordering a cicadas pizza for the math HOD is often a paying-back time for rogue students to humiliate the teaching staff.
by Numerati June 16, 2025
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Pi Needs You!

A humanist manifesto that brings together mathematicians and math educators around the globe to promote the message that math, in particular pi, must be humanized and inclusive rather than indifferent and elitist.
In an age of AI, where machines could spread π misinformation and disinformation, it’s of paramount importance that movements like “Pi Needs You!” reside in the mathematical consciousness of an oft-semi-innumerate lay public.
by Numerati January 5, 2025
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DEI Math

When a white supremacist or/and chauvinist suspects that an ill-posed or poorly worded math question, or for that matter any mathematical faux pas, big or small, most likely comes from a woman/person of color/immigrant/LBGTQ.
While a team of math educators-turned-inspectors are still investigating the source of the “confusing” test question that led thousands of students into frustration or panic, the Blamer-in-Chief attributes it to a DEI math problem.
by Numerati January 31, 2025
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Pi’s Block

The math constant’s equivalent of writer’s block. When the number π frustratingly finds herself facing a blank page with zero output on her part, often spewing out a string of four-letter words.
Unlike her constant counterparts like e and 𝜙, rain or shine, π doesn’t give the excuse of pi’s block to rationalize why she’s semi-productive or unproductive on certain days.
by Numerati August 11, 2024
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Silver Bar Modeling

When mathepreneurs see a multi-million dollar business opportunity to provide both resources and training for tens of thousands of seniors who are eager to learn about the “bar model method”—the heart of the Singapore elementary math curriculum—in order to connect and engage with their grandchildren’s and godchildren’s math education.
Publishers and vocational training centers have been pretty slow at taking advantage of the untapped source of revenue offered by the silver bar modeling industry, especially when more seniors are enjoying a longer lifespan in fast-greying Singapore.
by Numerati October 5, 2024
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Growth Mindset in Mathematics

The idea that math educators should focus on effort rather than on results—that failure is part of the success equation, because a set of false starts, failures, and frustrations are often necessary or unavoidable before someone could experience some degree of mathematical progress or achievement.
To fail is no shame, but failure to try again often is. A growth mindset in mathematics is to try or fail again, while failing better or faster each time.
by Numerati December 14, 2024
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A Pi-Free Math Book

The mathematical equivalent of a meeting-free day or passport-less travel. When the sight of the symbol π is enough to trigger panic or paranoia among billions of folks worldwide, who think they weren’t born or blessed with the “math gene.”
Just as a math book without equations or formulas could raise the sales figures by a few folds, a pi-free math book could give thousands of math-anxious folks more confidence in picking up a pop math book without feeling unduly stressed.
by Numerati January 2, 2025
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