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Mathematical Doodles

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

Let Go and Let God

When you realize that your effort or past, or what people think or say about your shortcomings, inadequacies, or failures, doesn’t determine your future, but God does, because He is in control of the universe and of your life.

Until you let go and let God Be in charge of your life, it’s hard for you to see His blessings flow through your life—God is concerned about what concerns you, because He wants you to experience his power, not just knowing about Him and His goodness.

by MathPlus September 8, 2018

Trump 2Ø2Ø

When President Donald J. Trump fails to secure a second term in the 2020 presidential election, as voters reject him for his bigotry, dishonesty, racism, supremacism, and his mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic.

At Trump 2Ø2Ø rallies, out of desperation, Donald Trump is concocting all kinds of eleventh-hour conspiracies and falsehoods about Covid-19 to exonerate himself from the abnormally high infection and death rates in the US.

by MathPlus October 30, 2020

COVID-🎶

The hypothesis that playing slower music—one that doesn’t exceed 120 beats per minute (BPM)—in public settings, such as when people exercise in gyms, or folks dance or do aerobics in workout classes, could reduce the corona infection rate, as it is pretty hard for people in a group activity to properly wear masks or social distance.

With the new Covid-🎶 rule, a number of gym owners in Seoul are worried whether playing fast, funky K-pop songs could get them in trouble with the authorities—would they be forced to play classical or gospel music instead to reduce saliva droplets in the air?

by MathPlus July 13, 2021

Red Kidnapping

When mainland Chinese security agents abduct those who publish or promote materials that depict China's communist leaders in a negative light, who are then detained without trial.

In the last two years, President Xi's agents had carried out a number of red kidnappings of booksellers in Hong Kong and Thailand, who didn't like the books they published about the Chinese government.

by MathPlus June 25, 2017

The Mathematics of Winnie the Pooh

Also known as “Xi Math.” When a dictator figured out that the political calculus in cracking down on democracy, imprisoning political opponents, green terrorists, and kidnapped reporters or publishers, without trial, and enacting a prolonged lockdown due to Covid-19 in spite of the economic costs, are worth the risks in securing a third-term or lifelong presidency via nationalistic means, such as indoctrinating students and teachers via his socialist writings, illegally annexing foreign lands, and sanctioning nations that side with Taiwan.

The mathematics of Winnie the Pooh shows that the odds of the power-hungry president trying to reunify autocratic China with the democratic Republic of China in coming decades are in his favor, as his life goal is to be the modern-day Mao of Taiwan.

by MathPlus September 5, 2022

Xi Math

When math curriculums in China are expected to subtly incorporate some of Emperor Xi’s thought as well as to praise the mixed achievements of past and present mainland Chinese mathematicians and their IMO mathletes-medalists as part of the country’s rich mathematical heritage—when political ideology and mathematical glory could serve as a catalyst to raising the quantitative literacy or numeracy of a billion-odd people.

Brainwashing hundreds of millions of schoolchildren, including targeting those in the Chinese diaspora, with Xi math could usher in a new era in math education worldwide, which could challenge the elitist or supremacist position of Western math in coming decades—when exporting China math worldwide under the guise of raising global numeracy could be a modern form of intellectual colonialism.

by MathPlus September 5, 2021