Fasters's definitions

Friendships

The secret to one’s longevity rather than just exercise or healthy diet, with God holding them tightly together.

In an age when more and more people are getting lonelier, friendships and relationships with others are vital for our physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing, not to say, graceful aging.

by Fasters April 18, 2023

2 > 1

The theomatical equivalent that two persons are better than one, because they can enjoy the work that they do together: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. If two sleep together, they keep each other warm. If a strong person tries to hurt them, the two can defend themselves.

In the Book of Ecclesiastes, King Solomon wisely reminded us that “2 > 1”—there is strength, security, and success in numbers.

by Fasters April 18, 2023

Money Grows on Trees

An author’s little-known truth, because trees give rise to lumber, which can then be converted to paper, before it is being used to print books, which earn the writer a cash lump sum or an obscene royalty.

In billions of homes, it’s not uncommon for parents telling their children off that money doesn’t grow on trees, or that money is hard to come by, but for millions of authors and publishers, the opposite is true: “Money grows on trees.”

by Fasters April 26, 2023

Empithy

When you put yourself in the shoes of the irrational number π, by understanding and sharing her feelings, who has constantly been badmouthed or backstabbed by fellow numerical constants, who can’t stand her fame in both math and pop culture.

Out of envy or jealousy, irrationals like e, 𝜙, and √2 are notoriously known for their zero empithy.

by Fasters May 6, 2023

Pi Politics

The use of different values for the irrational number π to poke fun at the differing polarized views parroted by mostly hypothetical or morally bankrupt politicians in the land of senseless deaths, which occur practically every day due to zero public ban on guns.

An example of pi politics among ultra-MAGA voters is:

Trump: π = 22/7 (because it is the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of any circle).

Pence: π = 3 (because the Bible tells me so).

DeSantis: π = x, where x is awaiting final approval by “woke” censors.

by Fasters May 7, 2023

The Wokenization of Singapore Math

When white Christian nationalists or ultra-MAGA patriots subscribe to the radical pedagogy that adopting (or adapting part of) the Singapore math curriculum would only adulterate theirs, because exposing local students to alien problem-solving strategies and heuristics under the guise of multicultural math or ethnomathematics would only give undue credit to foreign curriculum math specialists and publishers.

A number of white or “woke” curriculum censors are covertly working hand in hand with American textbook publishers to push for the wokenization of Singapore math, with both parties having a vested interest to ensure that dear inch-deep-mile-wide K–12 math textbooks rather than value-for-money foreign math titles inundate as many states and local schools as possible.

by Fasters May 9, 2023

Every pi has a phi lining

The mathematical equivalent of “Every cloud has a silver lining.” When the symbol π reminds millions of math-anxious students and their parents worldwide of their dreaded school math lessons, while the seldom-discussed golden or divine ratio 𝜙 would open their eyes to the beauty, utility, and ubiquity of mathematics.

If more people with a negative experience of school math were told that “every pi has a phi lining,” perhaps math wouldn’t get such a bad publicity among the school subjects.

by Fasters May 13, 2023