A “Bloody Pi” Limerick
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Bloody Pi
When a postmodern artist uses their own blood or the blood of animals as paint to draw the irrational number π, or to take part in a pi project as part of a math-and-art exhibition.
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A Haiku on Father’s Day
Unlike Mother’s Day, Father’s Day is relatively low-key in many homes around the world.
Whether you are a father, grandfather, or godfather, what’s Father’s Day to you? What emotions does this day ev...
Fibonacci and the Singapore Bar Model Method
Tens of thousands of students and teachers worldwide celebrate Pi Day every year. Some in Asia commemorate Abacus Day or Statistics Day or Phi Day.
What about Fibonacci Day, which falls on November 2...
Three
Trinities
To
Think
Through
Theomatically speaking, the Trinity satisfies the eternal equation: x + x + x = x, where the nontrivial x is ∞ (infinity).
Simplistically speaking, the Holy Trinity may be represented as “1 + 1 + 1 =...
四 CORONAKUS
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A (Very Short) History of Zero
The Adventures of Zero
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… a LIMERICK on inequality …
Some men
are born
more equal than
others.
Money, Power & Sex
Some men (and women) are born more equal than others.
Do you see them as being “blessed” with five talents while you were handed only one or two talents? Does that jealous or envi...
A Math Limerick:
THE
WORSHIP
OF
NUMBERS
God or Mammon?
What’s your life priority?
Your social identity or your eternal destiny?
Your job or financial security, or your family and friends?
Do you deify the money god? Or do you worship t...
The 5 Ws (and an H) of Pi
The Secret Life of π
There are a number of pi jokes and cartoons, most of which are apt for both elementary and middle-school students and teachers, but few pi humor exists at the high-school or coll...
9/11 Haikus
9/11
The wicked date in 2001 when more than 100,000 people could have lost their lives, as Muslim terrorists blew the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, New York—it is a miracle that the casualti...
Thou
Shalt
Not
Be
666-Vaccinated!
💉₆₆₆
The hypothesis by some Christian politicians or preachers that Covid-19 vaccines could alter people’s DNA and insert satanic elements within them, which means that they discourage their support...
A COVID-19 Limerick: Dining in the “fine” city of Singapore
Dine-in Rules for the Vaccinated and the Unvaccinated in Singapore
Only two people can dine in at coffee shops and hawker centers, regardless of their vaccination status, but fully vaccinated individ...
The Alphabet
of
Mathematics
What’s your attitude vis-à-vis mathematics? Was it your most beloved or most disliked school subject? To what extent did math affect your schooling or education?
Has math been the key to success in ...
BODMAS
In evaluating arithmetic operations, BODMAS or PEMDAS shows that some man-made intuitive rules agreed by mathematicians must be obeyed to avoid any numerical chaos.
Seldom discussed in school is the...
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Jesus the Way to the Father
Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to God the Father except through him. Anyone who knows Jesus will know his Father as well.
A Number Verse
for
Little Mathematicians
Math & Poetry 4 Kids: A vintage children’s numerical poem that could puzzle even educated adults!
Genius IQ
A very stable
genius
Cognitively smart
Corona Math: Two Coronakus à la Trump
Coronaiku: A haiku that exposes the idiocies and idiosyncrasies of those who are directly or indirectly involved in containing the deadly coronavirus pandemic.
Three Haikus:
From
SINGAPORE MATH
to
MATH SINGAPORE
Math Singapore
When there seems to be an unspoken correlation between the “fear factor” associated with math and the lawsuit filed by Singapore Ministers or MPs, with an unhealthy number of them havi...
MASK & MATH
Both hide much from us.
If we could see what’s behind
Fear would have to flee.
Three Masikus for Math Educators.
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