Where would your bills go to as your days become numbered? What are the chances that for most folks their pills would fill up a large part of their bill?
Cartoon by Mike Seddon
For some folks, their will might allocate more fund in anticipation of their loved ones’ soaring bills due to their consuming more dearer or designer pills.
Whatever the case, pills are seldom a positive sign in someone’s health regardless of their age.
Healing Is Free
A zero-pills lifestyle is (only) achievable by the Great Healer, who numbers our days, and whose death and resurrection on the cross had made it possible for any (willing) soul to live a quasi-pills-free way of life.
Isn’t it true that the best things in life are free? Yet, why would millions of people rather spend their savings on their poor health, when a touch from Him could graciously or freely heal them (completely)?
It’s not too late to apply what we know is oft-unspokenly true, yet out of pride or disinformation or falsehoods from other faiths, we’re too afraid to seek healing and deliverance from Him, who freely frees those who’re sick of being sick of all kinds of emotional and physical illnesses or sicknesses, age-related or not.
While the world is anxiously waiting what “Christmas (or Cliff-mas!) gift” North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has reserved for President Trump, with the two rogue leaders now having revived their name-calling game, and as the world witnesses the impeachment trial of the Liar-in-Chief, how can math educators nevertheless use the caustic and divisive political climate in the US to spice their enrichment or recreational math lessons? How can they generate some mathematical positives from the many political and moral negatives?
A few Christmases ago, I wrote Christmaths: A Creative Problem Solving Math Book, which looks at some parallels between the king of public holidays and the queen of sciences. And now thanks to Donald Trump, his narcissistic, racist, and supremacist behaviors and tweets continue to provide thousands of math teachers worldwide fertile fodder to link math to politics.
The Mathematics of Trump
For many of us living outside the US, who are agnostic about the political views of both Democrat and Republican politicians, it’s hard not to poke fun at American [Trump?] politics.
Below are a sample of published entries, which irreverently looks at some parallelisms between Trump and Math.
Meet the Pinocchio-in-Chief
From Trumpworthy Math, I went on to define two units for measuring falsehood: tru and Pinocchio.
Pinocchio
A unit for measuring how far or how much a politician, dictator, or businessperson is lying to an oft-gullible public—named after a marionette with a long nose, the picture of a dishonest person.
Trump’s denial of having sex with an adult entertainer, while his wife was still pregnant, is at least six Pinocchios.
by MathPlus October 31, 2018
Lies, White Lies, and Statistics
True or False
(a) Politifact: “76 percent of Trump’s statements were false or mostly false.”
(b) Politico: “Trump told a lie every three minutes and fifteen seconds.”
What is a Trump Number?
Below is one of the two published definitions of a “Trump Number,” which had evaded me for some time, because I just couldn’t nail down a description, without too much falsehood or exaggeration.
Based on your knowledge or readings about Donald Trump, how would you define a “Trump Number”?
The “C” Word Among Atheists and Islamists
Two Christmases ago, when President Trump boasted how he restored the spirit of Christmas among those who worship the King of kings, I coined War on Christmas.
War on Christmas
When conservatives and President Trump have had enough of the political correctness by Democrats that people should say “Happy Holidays” and not “Merry Christmas.”
President Trump is hell-bent on winning the war on Christmas, who bragged that under him Americans can now freely and proudly say “Merry Christmas”—they shouldn’t be hijacked by atheists and Islamists in sharing Christmas greetings to others.
by MathPlus December 25, 2017
And last Christmas, I christened the following:
Trumpmas
The name Donald Trump would have Christened Christmas if he could have his way—after all, every day, the media unfailingly have something un-Christian to write about him, since he miraculously became the US President.
Those working under him long for the day when Trumpmas would turn into Christmas—probably they’ve to wait until they resign or get fired by the president.
by MathPlus December 23, 2018
The Existence or Nonexistence of Santa Claus
Following the Christmas phone call between the US President and a lucky child last year, I coined the following:
And that presidential “child-unfriendly” phone call prompted me to pose the following Christmaths question:
Santa’s Proof
Santa Claus (🎅): “Children don’t exist.”
Prove or disprove whether Father Santa is correct or not.
Wrapping a Christmas Present à la Trump 🌲🎉🎊🎄
On November 13, 2017, I tweeted the following:
“Nothing” for Christmas
The Gift of Nothing: When you go shopping and could find nothing to buy as a gift for your best friend or loved ones, why not give them the gift of nothing, because nothing is not for sale? Put nothing in a big box and give it to them. #nothing #zero #gift
Last Christmas Eve, I coined Trumpgifting:
Immoral Math: Quid-Pro-Quo Math, Barr Math, and Mueller Math
With some exaggeration and irreverence, it’s not too difficult to coin some mathematical words or phrases based on how President Trump and his oft-ethically challenged administration misrule the country.
Green Math: Trump’s Climate Hoax
With Donald Trump dumping the Paris Agreement for his personal political agenda, math and science teachers could play their part in educating students about the long-term consequences of the president’s selfish unscientific decision.
Fake Father Christmas
On April 13, 2019, I tweeted the following:
Fake Christmas: What are the odds that President Trump’s hypothesis that global climate change is a hoax could speed up the first Christmas summer in the US or EU? Or when fake Xmas trees permeate the homes? #Christmas #Christmaths #weather #climate #Singapore #math #humor 🌲🔢
The Sharpie Pen and Christmas Cards 🎅 🎄 ✉️
Guesstimate how many Christmas cards (and their envelopes) you can use with a Sharpie pen.
Estimate how long a line you can draw with a Sharpie pen.
If each person sent an average of 30 Christmas cards, how long would the Sharpie pen last them? Three years?
Trump’s Greetings Cards
Last December, to resurrect the lost art of sending Christmas or greetings cards, I coined the following slogan:
Make America Greet Again
Bringing back printed greeting cards as in the good old days before the advent of e-cards —when sending personalized cards meant so much to both senders and receivers.
This festive season, Trump supporters want their president to pass an executive order to ban those working in the US government to send e-cards, as this virtual way of greetings is “robotic” and “dehumanizing”—they want to make America greet again.
by MathPlus December 02, 2018
Guesstimate how many millions of greetings cards would be sent every year in the United States if President Trump were to pass his executive order on banning Christmas e-cards.
BC & AD: Restoring Year Zero
Discuss the social, economic, and political implications if the world were to switch to a “Trumpian calendar.”
Pi Exposition
One way for math educators to poke fun at the disturbingly obscene number of ethically challenged senators in exposing their moral hypocrisy to condone or defend the wrongs of a morally bankrupt president is through the irrational and transcendental number pi.
Or, even evangelical Trump supporters voters who refused to acknowledge or right his moral and political wrongs shouldn’t be let off the hook for condoning or exonerating the sins of a “statistical president.”
Prove that the biblical value of pi, as mentioned in 1 Kings 7:23 and 2 Chronicles 4:2, is 3.
The Aftermath of Christmas
Estimate how many people each year suffer food poisoning after eating Christmas leftovers. About half a million?
Roughly how many unhappy people return their unwanted Christmas presents on Boxing Day (and come home with discounted items)?
A Christmas Gift for Trump
Let me end with two Trump-friendly entries I submitted two months ago:
Composing some Theomatics-related haikus may prove therapeutic for stressful math educators, who are prone to overusing their left part of the brain. Why not let these 17-syllabled verses reactivate some atrophied part of your grey matter? Who knows? This right-brained activity may indirectly help rekindle your mathematical creativity!
The Trinity
The True Living God
Ever Three and ever One
A mystery, indeed!
Christ And Mathematics Education (C.A.M.E)
Come to worship Him
Christ and math education
Join ACMS
Theomatics,Anyone?
Teach math Christianly
As an act of true worship
It sure honors Him
Two Conference Proceedings of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences (ACMS)
Pi in the Sky
The Biblical pi
Is a rational number
From the Book of Kings
π = 3.14 and John 3:16
So close, yet so far
Rational and eternal
The union is null.
The X-tian Pi
The true Christian life
Is like the contextual pi
Constantly changing
