The Cecanization of Singapore Math

When the quality of Singapore math textbooks and supplementary titles took a beating in the last one and a half decades, because both local and foreign math editors were reporting to their oft-clueless bosses, who were recruited under the Singapore-India “Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement” (CECA), many of whom with quasi-zero understanding of the Singapore educational system and the local educational publishing industry.

It’s hard to estimate the reputational and economic costs suffered by publishing houses in the aftermath of the Cecanization of Singapore Math: resignation of editors, frustration of authors, rejection of textbooks, brand dilution, and the like.

by MathPlus July 30, 2021

Math

An exclamation of extreme displeasure. Derived from the frustrating school subject of mathematics. Used to replace such derogatory words as: fuck, screw, shit,and damn. Often referred to as the "universal pronoun". It can be used to cover a mistake such as cussing in front of your grannie (no one likes to get their ear pulled) --OH fu-- math!

Oops, I mathed up!
I'm goin to go math all over the bathroom.
Dude, math you, you mathin' bitch.

by Biggs November 25, 2003

discrete math

Somewhat broad category of mathematical subjects that concern discrete, rather than continuous objects. A good example of this distinction is the kind of functions you study in discrete math. Where as calculus differentiates and integrates functions defined for every value in some interval of real numbers, the kind of function examined in discrete math is often called a 'mapping', a rule that associates each members in one set with one in another. Often, these sets are finite, and so the elements are discrete, rather than continuous.

The topics addressed in a discrete math class vary, but it seems every curriculum has mathematical logic, set theory, formal proof techniques, number theory and probability. Other topics you might run into are abstract algebra (e.g., group theory), graph theory, linear programming, game theory and algorithmic complexity.

In addition to teaching students very important methods of proof and logic, discrete mathematics also gives a fun rundown of topics with a lot of practical applications.

(In the US, the median income of the few people who have the attention span and maturity to learn about things like discrete math is $81,240. True fact.)

The previous contributor knocked discrete math on the Internet, not realizing that his message was routed to this server with an algorithm based on graph theory, which is a part of discrete math. Jesus fucken' Christ-on-a-cracker, is he ever dumb.

by 1338 h4x0r March 31, 2008

māthā

In NEW YORK it like saying Head or brain

Smoking the Zara it go straight to your māthā

Or
Ima buss your māthā word to my mother

by NYCYAZZ October 30, 2020

math class

the time set aside in the school day for students to daydream, doodle, and pass notes

Hey, I wrote you this in math class.

by Queen Of Ambiguity September 22, 2002

math homework

a sneaky way of getting out of the house for a some wacky tabacky.

i gotta go do some math homework

by Gold Leader June 25, 2006

math

phone number, digits.

mainly used by males to describe the phone number of a female.

"yo did you see that bad bitch I was talking to?"

"yea man, you get the math?"

by StealsyourstereO November 14, 2006