by NIGGA SLAVE October 31, 2022
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
Teacher 1: Some of the other math teachers and I are creating a group to satisfy our needs. We call it Math Blasters, wanna join?
Teacher 2: That sounds like just what I need to satisfy MY math loving kink.
Teacher 2: That sounds like just what I need to satisfy MY math loving kink.
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
Math that is clearly incorrect by a far off means of numbers that make you get Forrest Whitaker eye when trying to read it.
When that kid went to the front of the class and wrote on the board 7-2=597.22, I knew he only knew Rager math
by WordJesus December 30, 2020
by Lizardman1028 December 06, 2021
When it is humanly understandable to give up instead of persevering when faced with a false start or failure in solving a math problem—when the pain-and-gain mindset is often missing among struggling or frustrated students, who mistakenly thought that only those blessed or born with the “mathematical gene” could do math.
Fight-or-flight math makes it hard for us to think clearly, logically, and reflexively. Let not negative emotions take control of our reactions.
by Numerati August 08, 2024