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Bar Model Method

Singapore’s beloved or narcotized visualization problem-solving strategy that allows word problems set in upper grades to be solved without algebra in lower grades, by using part-whole or comparison models in the form of bars or rectangles.
The bar model method is so addictive that an unhealthy number of Singapore math students in middle school, who are expected to use algebra to solve challenging math questions, couldn’t be weaned from it.
by MathPlus November 25, 2020
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model minority

1. Asian-american. Asia's best and brightest tend to immigrate to better countries so accordingly overachieve.
2. Not the model majority which can be seen by looking at the state of the country the model minority come from.
The model minority makes the average american look stupid, but so they should considering their background.
by Dawei756 February 18, 2008
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model my beef

To smile with one's beef in their mouth, with their hand on the beef owner's testicals. See also, nigga tyrone
Nigga Tyrone: "Model my mothafuckin beef mothafucka!"
by UGRadio March 4, 2003
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Model material

To be model material means to be so pretty that you could be on the cover of a magazine. You've got what it needs to become a model.
Lee Taeyong, you're totally model material.!!!!

by Aphrodite Sept.10,2021
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Bar Model Method

A problem-solving visualization heuristic that is the heart of the Singapore math curriculum, whose copyright is being contested by both China and Russia (or even Japan), because they claimed that the “look-see” methodology used to solve challenging word problems in elementary grades originated from them.
In the aftermath of the Singapore’s claim that they and the Canadian songwriter Hugh Harrison own the copyright to the “Count on Me, Singapore” song rather than the Indian composer Joseph Mendoza, China and Russia now want Singapore to compensate them for “plagiarizing” the bar model method for over three decades—unprovenly, it’s their tit-for-tat message to high-GDP Singapore for not approving their home-made, half-baked vaccines.
by MathPlus March 20, 2021
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Fuck model movement

A movement that seeks to make all models fuck models or in other words for them to have fan clubs and to make appointments to meet and have sex with them.
by The Fury 13 November 8, 2010
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Model-Malte

A model-Malte is a pretty boy who is also great at Maths. You can call him Math-Malte too. He is lazy when he have to do math even though he can do it. He used to be a model but his big be a mathematician.
by VMSE September 9, 2018
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