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Political Math 

Word problems with a political or social agenda, which often reveals racial, religious, or societal divisions, or which exposes discrimination or prejudice against those from a different country, continent, caste, tribe, gender, lifestyle, race, religion, or belief.
Two political math classics in the recreational math literature, which condones bigotry and racism are:
1. A Turkish bath has 30 visitors in a day. The fee for Jews is 3 dirhams, for Christians 2 dirhams, and for Muslims 1/2 dirham. Thirty dirhams were earned by the bath. How many Christians, Jews, and Muslims attended?
2. A sinking ship must cast off passengers to survive. There are 15 Christians and 15 Turks aboard. The captain, himself a Christian, arranges the passengers in a circle where every ninth person will be thrown overboard. How should he make the arrangement so that the Christians survive?
Political Math by MathPlus November 23, 2020
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weapon of math instruction 

The term, 'Weapon of mass destruction' repeated by a person with a speech impediment.
Thay, did you hear a weapon of math instruction was found in Iraq?
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Business Math 

When a country capitalizes on its brand of math education, which often incorporates the best teaching and learning practices around the world, to benefit both local and foreign math educators financially.
Singapore math is an example of a good business math model, which has made a dent in the world of mathematics education—Singapore’s math textbooks have earned both local and foreign publishers millions of dollars over the last two decades.
Business Math by MathPlus February 18, 2019

Chili Math 

Fiendish math questions that are likely to get someone mentally constipated, or to make them feel logically disgusted, if they attempt to solving them without any formal training or preparation.
Like olympiad math, chili math should be introduced only to mathematically precocious kids lest the questions prove logically repugnant to immature or young minds.
Chili Math by MathPlus March 2, 2021

discrete math 

Somewhat broad category of mathematical subjects that concern discrete, rather than continuous objects. A good example of this distinction is the kind of functions you study in discrete math. Where as calculus differentiates and integrates functions defined for every value in some interval of real numbers, the kind of function examined in discrete math is often called a 'mapping', a rule that associates each members in one set with one in another. Often, these sets are finite, and so the elements are discrete, rather than continuous.

The topics addressed in a discrete math class vary, but it seems every curriculum has mathematical logic, set theory, formal proof techniques, number theory and probability. Other topics you might run into are abstract algebra (e.g., group theory), graph theory, linear programming, game theory and algorithmic complexity.

In addition to teaching students very important methods of proof and logic, discrete mathematics also gives a fun rundown of topics with a lot of practical applications.

(In the US, the median income of the few people who have the attention span and maturity to learn about things like discrete math is $81,240. True fact.)
This definition was routed to the Urban Dictionary server with an algorithm based on graph theory, which is a part of discrete math. Even if you don't like it, you have to admit it's useful.
discrete math by 1338 h4x0r April 1, 2008

Slut Math 

A math equation that decides if somebody (normally a female) can be considered slutty.

The equation is shown below:
(# of past partners) / (age - 10) = X

Possible answers:
X<1 Good girl, the kind you take home to mom.
X=1 Average, there is nothing wrong with being normal.
X>1 SLUT, fun to play with but generally crazy.
Guy 1: Rachel looks cute, but with my Slut Math skills I have determined she is a slut.
Guy 2: How did you do that?
Guy 1: Well she is 16 years old, and has slept with 18 guys. It is simple math, 18/6=3.

Guy 2: Damn dude, you're right, she is a super slut!
Slut Math by Zachy P July 20, 2010

Do a Math Trump 

When you irresponsibly or prematurely walk away from a math test or exam, instead of waiting until the end of the paper, when everyone is allowed to leave the room, because you can’t handle the difficult or brain-unfriendly questions, especially after boasting to the whole world that you have a “genius IQ.“
During the 60-minute math test the other day, everybody was surprised to see Don do a math trump, who consoled himself that he could always pay a Shapiro to sit for his SAT if he failed again.
Do a Math Trump by MathPlus October 27, 2020