A four-letter word that traditionally used to be called “arithmetic” in elementary or primary school—the third “R” in Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic. A much-disliked school subject that is mostly used as a social filter to separate the nerds from the herd, or to politically decide the future haves and the have-nots in society.
Unlike our parents and grandparents who’re schooled in old-school math, we’re now taught new math (which includes new ways to add, subtract, and multiply numbers), Common Core math (which incorporates many new math techniques), and Singapore math (which integrates the concrete-pictorial-abstract (CPA) approach to learning math and the bar model method to solve word problems).
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Short for “Department of Government Efficiency” Math. When a gang of smart alecks directed by some billionaire jerk-nerd come into the workplace and start accessing the personal data of allegedly underperforming or malingering math educators, or heartlessly email them over the weekend about their terminations, particularly targeting those who had unprovenly criticized the radical ideology of the MAGA cult or the conspiracies perpetrated by alt-right groups.
Guesstimate the number of firings that have so far taken place nationwide in the aftermath of the apparently vindictive DOGE math initiative.
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Text math is done in a number of scenarios such as during arguments with your soon-to-be ex, your parents when you're drunk, or with that co-worker when you aren't sure how exactly they got your number.
Text math is done in a number of scenarios such as during arguments with your soon-to-be ex, your parents when you're drunk, or with that co-worker when you aren't sure how exactly they got your number.
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