Math

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).

by Numerati June 14, 2025

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The Uberization of Singapore Math

When students, teachers, and homeschoolers could access affordable or quasi-free quality grades K–12 math resources based on the math curriculum from the “fine” city of Singapore, by bypassing traditional channels of distribution or mercenary middlepersons.

Thanks to print on demand (POD), the Uberization of Singapore math has significantly leveled the playing field for self-published authors and small publishers, as they needn’t rent a warehouse to store their books and rely on cut-throat distributors and bookstores to sell their titles.

by Numerati June 17, 2025

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Simp Math

Coined by Coach Greg Adams: - Excuses and Explanations by blue pill gumps, trying to defend matriarchy against factual statistics. It usually entails mental gymnastics and arithmetic to discount specific elements of statistics in order to prove a false, larger point that nothing untoward is going on.

Ramsey: The factual statistic is that 52% of marriages end in divorce. But, if you take out single mothers, people over 22, high school marriages, people with degrees, people earning less than $50,000, people who attend a house of worship, people who aren't from a divorced background; about 90% of marriages DO WORK.

CGA: that's Simp Math. you gump.

by LTG Covenant April 16, 2024

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