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When math curriculums in China are expected to subtly incorporate some of Emperor Xi’s thought as well as to praise the mixed achievements of past and present mainland Chinese mathematicians and their IMO mathletes-medalists as part of the country’s rich mathematical heritage—when political ideology and mathematical glory could serve as a catalyst to raising the quantitative literacy or numeracy of a billion-odd people.
Brainwashing hundreds of millions of schoolchildren, including targeting those in the Chinese diaspora, with Xi math could usher in a new era in math education worldwide, which could challenge the elitist or supremacist position of Western math in coming decades—when exporting China math worldwide under the guise of raising global numeracy could be a modern form of intellectual colonialism.
Xi Math by MathPlus September 5, 2021
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CRE8TIVE MATH 

Exploring the beauty, ubiquity, and utility of the number 8 on earth—in disciplines like math, science, art, philosophy, religion, and literature—in heaven, and in hell.
Some cre8tive math questions are:

What is half of 8? 0, 3, or 4?
What color is the number 8?
How are eight and infinity related?
Why do spiders and scorpions have 8 legs?

Why are superstitious Chinese fond of the digit 8?
What is the spiritual significance of the number 8 in the Bible?
What are some common traits for people born with the digital root 8?
CRE8TIVE MATH by MathPlus February 8, 2021
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intergrated math

This is the math class that stupid people in high school take.
fellow; i have an algebra 2 test today....( quietly poops in pants), maybe i should take "intergrated math" instead.

Viral Math 

When a brain-unfriendly, tricky, or ill-posed oft-elementary math question in a national exam is shared rapidly and widely on the internet, because an obscene number of unhappy students and their clueless parents could not solve it, who blamed the problem poser of the “unfair” question for causing them trauma, nightmare, pain, or suffering, with some even entertaining suicidal thoughts.
Singapore’s high-stakes Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE)—grade six—exam is notorious for setting viral math questions almost every other year—the PSLE math paper via its higher order thinking skills (HOTS) questions acts as a social filter to filter out the nerds from the herd.
Viral Math by MathPlus October 21, 2021

New Normal Math 

When math teachers reluctantly have to come to terms with new habits that would help them to keep their jobs in the new normal or post-pandemic, be it switching to more Zoom lessons in the aftermath of new lockdowns, monitoring students’ oft-unsatisfactory progress on Google Classroom, or communicating with ever-demanding parents on WhatsApp.
How many math educators worldwide decide to retire prematurely, as they can’t cope with the new normal math demands expected of them in the light of new waves of infection plaguing their nations?
New Normal Math by MathPlus April 25, 2021

Kansas Math

A tem describing the expectation to perform the same or better with reduced resources. Popularized by University of Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self when faced with a fan base expecting continued dominance despite effects of attrition.
Reasonable fan- "How do you have these lofty expectations for Kansas basketball after losing two lottery picks and an fantastic guard?"

Unreasonable fan-"Kansas Math."
Kansas Math by havoc4prez September 21, 2011

weapon of math instruction 

The quadratic equation, as defined by a t-shirt from Cal-Poly.
Crazy J got a "weapon of math instruction" t-shirt from a former student who now attends Cal Poly.