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🇸🇬 🔢

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

Corona Calculus

The use of differentiation and integration symbols to hypothesize the infection and mortality rates of change in many parts of the developed world. For example, which of the following Covid-19 hypotheses are worth investigating further?

Wuhan: ∫🦠₁₉ dx = 🦇 + c
White House: ∫🦠₁₉ dx = 🇨🇳🧫🧪+ c

Singapore: d/dx (🦠₁₉) = 😷x + 💀y
US: d/dx (🤥₄₅ + 🦠₁₉) = 😷ˣ + 💀ʸ

Corona calculus helps us to differentiate between facts and falsehoods about the coronavirus, while we integrate the latest effective preventive measures adopted by countries with low infections and deaths to control the pandemic crisis.

by MathPlus December 7, 2020

Stop the Steal

What math authors want to tell their local and foreign publishers in Singapore to cease using their content sans their permission in their sample chapters they submit to tender local and foreign projects; to pay them their due royalty when they sell their copyrights at book fairs; and not to rob them, by unscrupulously replacing their names with foreign ones when their textbooks are tailor-made for developing markets.

Singapore will continue to be a first-class economy with a third-class educational publishing industry as long as its unethical publishers pay lip service to stop the steal, with a number of morally corrupt and inept people occupying key positions still around today.

by MathPlus December 8, 2020

Trumpnotized

When petrified oft-morally corrupt GOP members show their blind or one-way street loyalty to Donald J. Trump lest his base supporters might dump them at the next election.

A few trumpnotized governors and mayors felt betrayed by their president, who vindictively and viciously lashed out at them for refusing to break the law in overturning the election results that declared victory to his opponent.

by MathPlus December 9, 2020

Christmask

When tens of thousands of children in developing countries are asking Santa Claus for face masks rather than toys to protect themselves and their parents (and also their teachers, doctors, nurses, and frontline workers) from the coronavirus.

Since both her parents lost their jobs due to Covid-19, Mary’s wish this Christmas is for Father Claus to deliver at least one box of Christmasks for her and her two younger siblings, who have been told to reuse their masks as often as possible to save money.

by MathPlus December 9, 2020

🇸🇬 🔢

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

In emoji, 🇸🇬 🔢 = (🇺🇸 + 🇬🇧 + 🇨🇳 + 🇰🇷 + 🇷🇺 + 🇮🇱) × 🔢—the six main mathematical ingredients Singapore apparently used to bake its own cake, which is now popular among tens of thousands of math educators and homeschoolers worldwide.

by MathPlus December 10, 2020

Singapore 4 Trump

When tax fugitives and corrupt entrepreneurs in Singapore want to ostentatiously donate millions to Trump’s post-election fund to help him fight against “fraudulent ballots”—which prevented him from being re-elected in the 2020 presidential election—in the hope that come 2024, when he ran again and won bigly, he would grant them tax concessions as a quid pro quo.

Ironically, most members of Singapore 4 Trump are filthy rich permanent citizens and naturalized citizens from mainland China and India, and millionaires and billionaires who had fled the US and the EU to settle in tax-heaven Singapore, who bet that having Trump as the re-elected president in 2024 or 2028 would be an auspicious year for their businesses.

by MathPlus December 10, 2020