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Writing full articles takes time and effort. But the effort is cumulative, so these stub articles are really just the start. Some of the comment you made here would definitely improve the article. You are always welcome to edit and improve Wikipedia. I mean this literally and sincerely, it is one of the few places on the internet where you might benefit from posting.

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It's not a "stub article" though, it's just a paragraph and then a bunch of stuff plagiarised from a maths textbook.

I already edit quite a bit on Wikipedia. I stay away from the maths bits, because it's a little outside my area of expertise - and because it's just things like "it's a function to calculate distance, and here's ten pages of algebra with no explanation" I can't really improve that on Wikipedia.

it is quite telling that wikipedia has pages upon pages documenting pokemon, but relatively limited context about maths or science, beyond what's in textbooks.

Telling what? STEM academics are busier than Pokémon fans to contribute to Wikipedia? Or they care less about the cause of Wikipedia? That as a society we produce more of the latter than the former? There’s no definitive rationale to be told simply by that observation.

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