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When math learning goes beyond learning facts, figures, and applications; instead, math is humanized so that it is allowed to convey beauty, values, truth, justice, play, and love—when mathematical thinking is viewed as a way of life.
Teachers should present math as a verb, not as a noun—when students should be encouraged to be active players, not mere spectators.
by MathPlus January 8, 2019
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Guesstimate how many people worldwide would challenge or sue their employers for implementing the "No Jab, No Job” policy, who argue that it is discriminatory to force any staff to be immunized.
by MathPlus February 18, 2021
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If only more people would practice negative visualization every now and then to take stock of what might go wrong in spite of their positive attitudes in taking risks in life, few would get hurt or burnt of their hard-earned money.
by MathPlus April 21, 2018
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Guesstimate how many byslexics worldwide fail their algebra test every year through no fault on their own.
by MathPlus October 1, 2021
Get the byslexic mug.The hypothesis that deep inside the digits of the decimal number π there is a string of 666 successive sixes rubbing shoulders—the number 666 is notoriously known as the “Beast or Devil Number.”
Recreational mathematicians think that should they locate the devilish pi, that might be very disturbing to theologians, who could alarmingly interpret such a recurring occurrence as a proof that the devil is in the digits.
by MathPlus March 31, 2020
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Inflation explains why the price of a math book in 1960 was 30 cents, but the same type of book today costs 30 dollars, or why a ten dollars’ worth of cookies today only cost 30 cents half a century ago.
by MathPlus January 4, 2019
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Like the disciple John, who personalized the Lord's love for him by calling himself "the disciple whom Jesus loved,” you too could personalize John 3:16, so that His love is like a magnifying glass that focuses the heat from the sun over that blade of grass in a field to make it burn.
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