When the effort or resourcefulness of tens of thousands of math tutors in Singapore covers up most local school teachers’ poor teaching pedagogies or methodologies and their low enthusiasm or creativity, thus exonerating the latter in making the subject appear dull and boring and unconnected to real life.
If there was a months-long lockdown in Singapore due to the pandemic, except for the thousands of families who can’t afford private tuition for their children, the math grades of the majority of middle-class students wouldn’t significantly suffer, because of a mask for math culture that has permeated the entire educational system for decades.
neil cicierega: *messing around on amazon*
also neil *finds something called "a mask of my own face"*
still him: *realizes its literally his face*
what do you think: *buys it*
do i have to: a mask of my own face id wear that id wear that
A question that indirectly tells someone to put their mask on. When someone asks you “Do you have a mask?”, it means that masks are required and you have to wear one. It’s just a nicer way of saying it.