When a math teacher decides not to hurt the feelings of their weak students, by insincerely using large numbers and symbols to grade their test paper—for example, a student receiving back their exam paper with a score of (√81)/90 or 4²/100, mistaking it for 81/100 or 42/100.
Some parents object to teachers’ “mathematical sensitivity” or fake feedback, preferring that they’d tell their child the painful truth how poorly they had performed in their math test.
by MathPlus November 30, 2020
The untapped tool that has hardly been used by oft-boring or uncreative math writers to convey difficult concepts to their lay readers—when math educators-turned-doodlers or artists-turned-math writers could disrupt math publishing such that the world’s most disliked school subject needn’t be terminal once it becomes optional.
The use of mathematical doodles could be seen as a visual version of math guides for dummies, idiots, and morons—an intersection of math, art, and creativity to raising the quantitative literacy of millions of semi-innumerate people worldwide.
by MathPlus October 8, 2021
A math word or term that has graduated from noun to verb—for example, “zero,” “square,” and “number.”
Mathematical verbs, such as model, pattern, and fractal, are the mathematical equivalents of Google, Xerox, and Zoom.
by MathPlus October 20, 2021
Short-term success in math, whereby exam-smart teachers and tutors drill or spoon-feed students, by getting them to memorize modeled solutions of questions that are likely to appear in the coming examination based on previously set questions from past exam papers.
It’s not surprising that most university students in Singapore, who are reading for a degree in math, struggle with their courses because they grew up on mathematical steroids in high school.
by MathPlus December 8, 2021
by spotty quill January 22, 2021
1. A religion designed for people who think they can see the universe through God's eyes.
2. Religion that uses extensive bogus claims of unseen happenings rivaling Christianity.
2. Religion that uses extensive bogus claims of unseen happenings rivaling Christianity.
1. Since Hawking studies mathematical physics, it means he wanted to see the universe through the eyes of God, so God paralyzed his ass.
2. Never seen dark matter? Never seen water turn to wine? Same difference.
2. Never seen dark matter? Never seen water turn to wine? Same difference.
by Jefferoo March 16, 2012
It is a breakdown of the numerical values found in the date numbers. Because each number has a specific meaning, each date has its own mathematics.
by ButtaBiscuit June 4, 2022