Fasters's definitions

Pi Dance

When the three parts that make up the number π decide to perform a Michael Jackson’s moonwalk in front of a geeky audience.

With three permissible orientations of the legs (/, |, \), show that there are at most six possible movements of the pi dance.

by Fasters June 25, 2022

What’s Pi Thinking?

When the irrational number π is paranoid or petrified that some radical elements of the mathematical brethren might conspire together to promote other mathematical constants like e and 𝛷 in gracing the pages of reputable math journals on a regular basis.

A few notable constants have discreetly approached some Fields medalists (the equivalent of Nobel Prize winners in mathematics) in their dreams by revealing to them some of their sexy numerical and geometric secrets after hearing leaked news of “what’s pi thinking?”

by Fasters August 13, 2022

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

Is Pi Male or Female?

When the beautiful numerical or geometric properties of the number π lures far more men than women, who long to get intimate with mathematics’s most famous constant—when rational male figures get pretty excited, with some even experiencing occasional ahas, whenever the irrational and sexy π reveals more of her hidden properties.

The masculine and feminine subtle behaviors exhibited by the number π makes math educators and recreational mathematicians quietly ask: “Is pi male or female?”

by Fasters December 19, 2021

Dash

A short horizon line between two numbers—year born and year dead—that represents an entire life from birth to death, which could last for decades, years, days, and minutes that the person buried six feet below ground was given.

A dash shows how short our finite or limited life is on this side of eternity, which can’t be added or multiplied, much less saved up to be used in the future.

by Fasters February 23, 2023

Cannamath

When parents rely on cannabis to slow down their stressful life, so that they are better able to help their oft-math-anxious children cope with the mathematical challenges and frustrations they face in school—for example, they could help them with their math homework or project, which also provides them an opportunity to bond and engage with their kids during their formative years.

The legalization of cannabis to more US states would allow more parents to embrace cannamath, thus enabling them to get more involved in the mathematics education of their children, by being more present, more patient, and more creative with them.

by Fasters January 1, 2022

The Number of the Feast

When environmentalists are debating what percents of someone’s income must be spent on food to avoid food wastage, while alleviating global poverty—they argue that food is too cheap to provide sufficient income for small farmers, who are the world’s poorest or hungriest people.

The Pinocchio-in-Chief wanted to boast about his skin-deep knowledge about the number of the beast to his MAGA evangelical donors, but they ended up talking about the number of the feast instead.

by Fasters December 10, 2022