Mathematical Sensitivity

When a math teacher decides not to hurt the feelings of their weak students, by insincerely using large numbers and symbols to grade their test paper—for example, a student receiving back their exam paper with a score of (√81)/90 or 4²/100, mistaking it for 81/100 or 42/100.

Some parents object to teachers’ “mathematical sensitivity” or fake feedback, preferring that they’d tell their child the painful truth how poorly they had performed in their math test.

by MathPlus November 30, 2020

mathematics

often cold and misunderstood science of numbers applicable to the world; see math

The professor taught math to his students to help them engineer better computers.

by cp October 4, 2003

mathematician

The one job everyone wants you to have but no one ever does have.

Everyone: You're going to become a mathematician one day.

You: No, no I'm not.

by ponybalogna June 16, 2018

mathematician

A sexual act where one person (male or female) kneels at a man's side, and with the fingers of one hand probes the anus in a calculator-button pushing motion. The other hand grips the penis and strokes it in a crank handle fashion, as if he or she is operating an old-time crank-handle calculator.

Sally promised the college math professor that if she performed the mathematician on him he would shout out prime numbers at the top of his lungs.

by 0 00 January 8, 2006

Mathematica

A math god!

Ask it a question, and you will get an answer.

Ask it the wrong question and it will tell you how to get an answer.

Jimmy was struggling with his Calculus homework, so he asked Mathematica what the Derivative of Uranus was, and it told him yourmom^2.

by 1badasfuthermucker October 11, 2009

Mathematical Doodles

The untapped tool that has hardly been used by oft-boring or uncreative math writers to convey difficult concepts to their lay readers—when math educators-turned-doodlers or artists-turned-math writers could disrupt math publishing such that the world’s most disliked school subject needn’t be terminal once it becomes optional.

The use of mathematical doodles could be seen as a visual version of math guides for dummies, idiots, and morons—an intersection of math, art, and creativity to raising the quantitative literacy of millions of semi-innumerate people worldwide.

by MathPlus October 8, 2021

Mathematical Verb

A math word or term that has graduated from noun to verb—for example, “zero,” “square,” and “number.”

Mathematical verbs, such as model, pattern, and fractal, are the mathematical equivalents of Google, Xerox, and Zoom.

by MathPlus October 19, 2021