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Short for “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Math.” Math products or services that right-wing math educators and MAGA parents have chastised for their “woke” content, and have called on their lawmakers to censor them from their states to protect the young minds from “foreign indoctrination.”
Some Singapore math publishers have apparently been warned by some white Taliban curriculum censors in some red states—they need to remove pages that promote multicultural or DEI math, such as depicting Chinese, Arabic, and Hindu numerals for the numbers one to nine, or stating that the theorem named after Pythagoras was known to Chinese and Egyptian mathematicians long before the Greek numerologist was born.
by Fasters June 5, 2023
Get the DEI Math mug.Short for “non-fungible token mania.” The urge or rage to own and invest in dear NFTs—and the desire by artists and creators to sell their digital assets at obscene or outrageous prices.
Is NFTmania the modern-day Tulipmania? A get-rich-quick blockchained scheme that would lead many to poverty or bankruptcy.
by Fasters November 14, 2022
Get the NFTmania mug.If you suspect you have contracted the coronavirus, you are right—it is like Murphy’s Law applied to the “foreign virus,” especially if you are a diehard Trump loyalist.
by Fasters May 6, 2020
Get the Coronavirus Law mug.A term that gained currency during the pandemic, especially after repeated lockdowns and potential mental breakdowns, to describe the type of negative, irrational, selfish, or self-defeating behavior that plagued many math educators worldwide, because they were tired of conforming to the social or unreasonable expectations of the authorities, or had little respect for vampires or hypocrites with a say in their pay.
Be it adhering to lockdown rules, working from home, or attending to parents’ complaints, demands, and threats, math teachers and tutors had descended into a goblin math state, when they’re waiting to be fired if they didn’t call it quit themselves.
by Fasters December 5, 2022
Get the Goblin Math mug.A math educator who approaches a question or problem from a new angle, by not thinking outside the box, but throwing out the box entirely, to increase their chances of experiencing an aha!
Be it trying to think about a wicked problem from a rogue leader’s viewpoint (like Trump, Putin, or Kim) and see what pops up; or self-imposing a set of rules and a time limit to focus on the issue; or reading the Bible and praying in the Spirit, is what some mathematical weirdos would playfully do to tackle their problem.
by Fasters February 2, 2023
Get the Mathematical Weirdo mug.When someone boastfully claimed to have used the value of the decimal number π to at least a dozen digits in a computation to sound more accurate, when three or four digits would have sufficed.
Unless they are a rocket scientist or quantum physicist, laypersons who pridefully tell others that they had used buffalo pi in a practical math problem are simply blowing their own horn.
by Fasters January 2, 2022
Get the Buffalo Pi mug.The mathematical equivalent of an answered prayer, such as being healed of an incurable disease or chronic sickness; seeing a business, financial, or relationship breakthrough; and helping others deliver from demonic oppression or sexual addiction in the name of Jesus Christ.
In the spiritual realm, mathematical equations in the natural world no longer hold true thanks to supernatural forces: 1 + 1 ≠ 2, 1 + 1 + 1 = 1, …, 2 + 5 = 5000, π = 3.
by Fasters May 22, 2022
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