Singapore Math

The mathematical equivalent of having brown rice rather than white biryani rice. An unsexy, wholesome math curriculum that is healthy to the mind, but brain-unfriendly for most students, who need to force themselves to mastering the concepts confidently.

Like taking cod liver oil, which is good for the body immune system, Singapore math may look unappetizing, but after spending a few hundred hours practicing thousands of nonroutine, impractical or sterile questions, your brain can only get mathematically stronger and healthier.

by MathPlus June 7, 2018

Singapore Math Variants

Math titles plagued with brain-unfriendly questions to bedevil or challenge those who find that school textbooks in Singapore ill-prepare them to solve nonroutine or tricky questions—kiasu parents and tutors want to expose their children and students to fiendish or deadlier word problems to protect themselves against olympiad math questions, which have infected school exam papers in recent years.

Publishers are maniacally looking for Singapore math variants writers to meet the mathematical needs and wants of kiasu parents, who want their kids to have an unfair competitive edge over their peers.

by MathPlus May 19, 2021

Singapore

A highly stressful place where local students are more afraid of failing their math exam than of their parents dying—one in three said that life isn't worth living.

Dubbed an "authoritarian democracy" by critics, Singapore is "a first world oasis in a third world region"—where political dissidents would better apply for asylum in the US or the West to avoid being fined, jailed, or made bankrupt.

by MathPlus March 25, 2017

singapore swap

to put your wristwatch and wedding ring on a girls hand while she gives you a hand job therefore looking like you are doing it; a way to get around cheating on your spouse.

wife: you promise you didn't cheat on me on your business trip?
husband: yes, I promise.
(next day at work, after story is told around the office)
husband: no I don't feel bad, thank God for the singapore swap!

by goatcheese June 12, 2004

Singapore Math

When math-smart yes-members of Parliament and cabinet ministers in Singapore—who are versed with all the big numbers of their million-dollar salaries and bonuses and the nation’s trillion-dollar economy—appear quasi-clueless on how to deal with the alphas, betas, and deltas, which has resulted in a daily unhealthy number of corona infections in recent weeks—could these half-street-smart politicians outwit these Greek viruses and variants?

Although the government has provided a safe haven for thousands of tax fugitives from both rich and rogue nations, and created a materialistic milieu that motivates both locals and aliens to deify the money god, however, Singapore math ministers’ social living-with-Covid experiment looks like they’re indulging in some trial-and-error political calculus with the lives and livelihoods of the people.

by Covido February 5, 2022

swingers-style

v. intr.

To travel as a group from one place to another, with each group member driving his own car.

"Let's hop into the pimp-daddy mobile and roll to the party."
"Naw. Let's go swingers-style."

by Ytse September 6, 2005

Singalong

Very powerful choral vocals or shouts along with lead singer. It's shouting several statements, frases, words or even sounds. Such things are widespread in hardcore punk, straight edge and youth crew to pick out the main idea of a song, to appeal audience's attention. Singalons are also present in fusion genres of hardcore punk with metal (metalcore), death metal (deathcore), pop punk (easycore). Not to be confused with backing vocals.

I wanna listen to this song again and again only because of this nice singalong!

by Paul Grincent January 3, 2015