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An oft-unspoken disability whereby someone could hardly distinguish between the letter “O” and the number 0, often mistaking one for the other—the disorder was coined after the word “naught” for nothing, nil, or zero.
by MathPlus October 11, 2021
Get the Dysnauxiamug. When unscrupulous mainland Chinese manufacturers ship millions of inferior or ISO-unapproved masks to syndicates in both developed and developing countries, which then distribute them to unsuspected hospitals and businesses—when low quality masks the wallet-friendly masks.
Is mask trafficking behind the difference between “Three China-made mask boxes for $10” and “One mask box at $8”?
by MathPlus March 27, 2021
Get the Mask Traffickingmug. When people are advised to avoid handshakes to lower the risk of getting infected with Covid-19, but urged to think of alternative ways to greet one another—for instance, they could bump elbows; embrace the Thai wai and say hi in prayer-like posture; or use the “footshake.”
by MathPlus June 29, 2022
Get the Covid-🤝mug. The Japanese art of folding a square paper, with orange on one side and white on the other side, into a shape that resembles the Pinocchio-in-Chief.
A number of Trumpublican math educators in some red states are planning a Trumpgami Contest on Pi Day to remember the “educational contributions” of their one-term, twice-impeached, thrice-married ex-president, whose signature helped revoke Common Core Math in their schools.
by MathPlus June 22, 2021
Get the Trumpgamimug. A free-market economy that is unspokenly flushed with cash from tax fugitives, making revenue earned from tourism and exported goods and services pale in comparison.
Among the unofficially reported tax fugitives who became Singapore citizens are Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, Chinese movie stars Jet Li and Gong Li, investment guru Jim Rogers, not to say, the thousands of millionaires from Indonesia, India, Malaysia, and India.
by MathPlus April 12, 2017
Get the Singaporemug. A label for a pro-Trump white racist and supremacist turned terrorist—named after Donald J. Trump’s radicalized diehard supporters who staged a coup at the Capitol hoping to extend his stay at the White House.
by MathPlus February 23, 2021
Get the Trumporistmug. When the methodology and pedagogy used in Singapore math textbooks and supplementary titles (foreign and local editions) at the same grade are believed or perceived to be equivalent, yet the level of difficulty of the brain-unfriendly questions in both editions differs significantly—the tailor-made overseas editions are often one or two grades lower than the local one.
US math educators need to take note of the same-same-but-different Singapore math titles to temper their expectations of their students’ mathematical proficiency compared to that of their Singaporean counterparts.
by MathPlus August 30, 2021
Get the Same-Same-But-Different Singapore Mathmug.