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Covid-☠️🤥

When bad hombres plan to poison God’s “anointed one” because they are dead sick of his corona conspiracies and “cures,” and of his refusal to concede defeat in the 2020 presidential election, which he baselessly claimed to be fraudulent.

God forbids that anyone should harm the Liar-in-Chief or Pharisee-in-Chief, especially when Covid-☠️🤥 threats are disturbingly gaining more “likes” on social media.

by MathPlus November 13, 2020

Mathematica Nostalgia

Thoughts of yesteryear that remind you of those times when you longed for math to be an optional school subject, or hoped that your math teacher would be abducted by aliens.

Seeing her two boys struggle with the most disliked school subject evokes feelings of mathematica nostalgia in Mrs. Paul, who suffered from mathophobia when faced with brain-unfriendly word problems.

by MathPlus April 18, 2018

Singapore Math

The mathematical equivalent of having brown rice rather than white biryani rice. An unsexy, wholesome math curriculum that is healthy to the mind, but brain-unfriendly for most students, who need to force themselves to mastering the concepts confidently.

Like taking cod liver oil, which is good for the body immune system, Singapore math may look unappetizing, but after spending a few hundred hours practicing thousands of nonroutine, impractical or sterile questions, your brain can only get mathematically stronger and healthier.

by MathPlus June 7, 2018

ZERO 101

An introductory course on the number zero offered at some community colleges as part of the popularization of mathematics to an oft-semi-innumerate public.

How do we pronounce the “101” in “ZERO 101"? One-oh-one? One-zero-one? One-nought-one?

by MathPlus August 26, 2021

Not Anti-God, but Anti-Christ

When opponents of Christianity are hell-bent to devaluing Jesus’ deity, the cross, and His power to forgive all sins, by telling others that Jesus is not the Son of God, but just one of the prophets in the Bible—the lie that their place in paradise is dependent on their good deeds and performing lifelong rituals on earth to an impersonal God rather than through their faith in Jesus’ grace alone and establishing a personal relationship with Him.

It’s not surprising that many religious leaders, who are not anti-God, but anti-Christ, wouldn’t want their followers to know that Jesus’ blood shed on the cross (and not the blood of bulls and goats) is able to forgive all their sins and cleanse them from all unrighteousness, and that through His grace (unmerited favor) by faith (and not through works and rites) that they have eternal life.

by MathPlus July 4, 2021

Trumpffiti

Any creative or mean writing, or funny or X-rated drawing, on Donald J. Trump in a public square, which pokes fun at his idiotic and idiosyncratic behaviors; or at his narcissistic, racist, and supremacist tweets.

A sample of Trumpffiti are:
1. 🇺🇸🤥 + 🇨🇳🦠 = 😷x + 💀y. By 1/20/21, x = 24M, y = 400K
2. UNfit 4 President: #NotMyPresident
3. Trump’s crimes: Pussygate (2016), Zelenskygate (2019), Coronagate (2020), Capitolgate (2021)

by MathPlus February 1, 2021

🇸🇬 🔢

Singapore Math in two characters. A mélange of the best math curriculums from the East and the West, which is arguably the catalyst for Singapore students to repeatedly rank top in international comparative studies like PISA and TIMSS.

In emoji, 🇸🇬 🔢 = (🇺🇸 + 🇬🇧 + 🇨🇳 + 🇰🇷 + 🇷🇺 + 🇮🇱) × 🔢—why should Singapore reinvent the wheel when it can steal the best mathematical ideas from others?

by MathPlus December 6, 2020