A mix of intuitive bar modeling and abstract algebra to solve word problems, which serves as a bridge from pre-algebraic thinking (hidden in the Singapore bar model method) to formal algebraic thinking (involved in solving an equation).
Many middle school students in Singapore are so fluent in the bar model method that teachers and parents find it hard to wean them from it in order to embrace the algebraic method. As a result, some math educators suggest using the blended or hybrid modeling to make the transition less painful.
by Numerati October 17, 2024
Get the Hybrid Modelingmug. When one prefers a fictional character model (a character's design) over their emotions and personality.
Star Wars fan 1: I honestly don't get how Boba Fett has a fanbase. He barely did anything in The Empire Strikes Back.
Star Wars fan 2: My guess is that it's a sign of model over mind. He does look pretty cool so maybe people like him just for his look.
Star Wars fan 1: That actually explains a lot.
Star Wars fan 2: My guess is that it's a sign of model over mind. He does look pretty cool so maybe people like him just for his look.
Star Wars fan 1: That actually explains a lot.
by CelticEagle February 15, 2019
Get the Model Over Mindmug. To have sexual intercourse with a model.
by therealTSeddon July 19, 2012
Get the Model popmug. The unspoken assumption behind most of the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders): that every human is a neatly bounded, fully knowable individual who can be diagnosed like a glitchy toaster.
Used to justify labeling complex, context-driven human behavior as “disordered” while ignoring trauma, systems, relationships, and late-stage capitalism.
Symptoms may include:
• Taking your emotions personally
• Believing your thoughts are facts
• Assuming “normal” exists
• Diagnosing others on TikTok
Used to justify labeling complex, context-driven human behavior as “disordered” while ignoring trauma, systems, relationships, and late-stage capitalism.
Symptoms may include:
• Taking your emotions personally
• Believing your thoughts are facts
• Assuming “normal” exists
• Diagnosing others on TikTok
Therapist: “Sounds like you might meet criteria for 296.89.”
Patient: “Or maybe I’m just rejecting the Discrete Self Model.”
Therapist: “…I’ll need to consult the DSM-6 for that.”
Patient: “Or maybe I’m just rejecting the Discrete Self Model.”
Therapist: “…I’ll need to consult the DSM-6 for that.”
by seeing March 30, 2025
Get the Discrete Self Modelmug. I saw this Indian guy on TikTok or Shorts or Facebook (I think it was Facebook actually) who said not to believe people when they talk about model minority immigrants and their "hard work culture" or the rates of success because he says the US is very strict in regards to who they let in. So, they only let in immigrants who they believe are going to do well. Which skews the studies showing that immigrants are generally more successful"
Hym "The 'Asian work culture' you're talking about relates more to the US only allowing model minorities to immigrate here and is literally killing young men. Japan and South Korea have fairly high suicide rates in the world for that very reason (49th and 4th respectively). 30% of men 27 and younger (in Japan) are virgins. Promoting the culture you are talking about actually has an INVERSE correlation with the outcome you claim to be trying to achieve. Instill the asian work ethic so instead of killing eachother they kill themselves. Business owners make more money off of they labor from which they benefit disproportionately. Sure, gang violence is bad but is corporate wage slavery really any better? It is if you're a fat cock. You get to fuck all the woman. It is if you're a business owner. You get all of the money."
by Hym Iam April 21, 2023
Get the Model Minoritiesmug. You look modelic in that mini skirt
by azulfer June 11, 2021
Get the Modelicmug. When incorporating Singapore’s bar model method—the problem-solving visualization strategy to tackle word problems—at the elementary school level and its aim to develop students’ pre-algebraic thinking skills (before they are introduced to formal algebra) are not often partially achievable or necessarily correlated in practice.
Wallet-friendly Singapore math textbooks, workbooks, and teachers’ resources on their own doesn’t guarantee problem-solving mastery—bar-modeling orthogonality seems to be a constant in many traditional American classrooms, often because of teachers’ or parents’ faux perception that a foreign math curriculum or publication is harder (or even inferior) than their local inch-deep-mile-wide one.
by Numerati December 5, 2024
Get the Bar-Modeling Orthogonalitymug.