When uninhibited math educators in the “fine” city of Singapore have started posing word problems that use rogue characters who exhibit the idiocies and idiosyncrasies of Mr. Pinocchio and his team of morally corrupt lawmakers and semi-innumerate advisors.
The Trumpification of Singapore math has sprung a dozen-odd politically incorrect titles that aim to hone students’ and parents’ critical thinking skills in mathematics.
by Numerati March 20, 2024
A digital asset that has gained currency in decentralized Ponzi schemes, which makes it virtually impossible to catch the bad actors (criminals, hackers, money launderers, drug & human traffickers, …); it also serves as safe virtual money to protect the wealth of those who live in developing countries beset with hyperinflation.
Once dubbed an “index of money laundering,” bitcoin is often confused with blockchain, which is a system of recording information that is almost impossible to change or forge.
by Numerati June 29, 2024
A kind of alien math from a rebel island that was once part of Malaysia, where they learn and teach math word problems in a local dialect called Singlish, using rectangles, lines, and dotted lines, which the people there call “bar models,” with most of them looking arguably ugly.
Local teachers told an Englishman that Singapori Math is a rojak or mélange of methodologies and pedagogies, with ingredients from both the East and the West—when the island was trying to solve its population’s high innumeracy rate in the seventies.
by Numerati March 15, 2024
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 07, 2024
When someone doesn’t give a heck or damn if they feel they were or are right, 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 January 26, 2024
When students exercise shape flexibility in solving a math problem to enhance their understanding, or to figure out any hidden or nonobvious relationship between the known and unknown quantities, such as moving and rearranging parts of a bar model drawing or/and adding dotted lines to a model diagram.
It’s not surprising that those who practice spatial structuring stand a higher chance of solving a word problem when using the “draw a diagram” strategy than their peers who don’t.
by Numerati January 29, 2025
Overvalued or inflated numbers or percents issued by an unscrupulous or corrupt businessperson, so that their rogue or shady businesses could secure better loan terms and insurance deals, and would pay lesser tax.
Mr. Pinocchio could be fined up to $250m and be banned from doing business in his home state should he be found guilty of submitting an obscene number of trump figures related to his bigly valued properties.
by Numerati October 02, 2023