Which Number Has Its Letters in Alphabetical Order?
And, for Mathematical fun, which Number Has Its Letters in Alphabetical Order? [Answer in Post Support]
And, for Mathematical fun, which Number Has Its Letters in Alphabetical Order? [Answer in Post Support]
Novak Djokovic started to realize what he had just achieved. This was the moment he won grand slam number 23, surpassing Rafael Nadal at the top of the men’s all-time list. In a golden era for the sport – stretching back to Roger Federer’s first grand slam title 20 years ago – Djokovic has now eclipsed those […]
There’s a Winnie the Pooh song about counting. “Counting, counting, numbers are for counting…” the wise Owl sung to little Roo who was trying to help Pooh to count his honey pots for the party. Counting is an integral part of our lives today. We count our income and our expenses, we count calories and the […]
What’s the biggest number you can think of? When I was a child, it’s the kind of question we’d ask each other in the school playground. Someone would say something hopelessly naïve like “a billion billion billion”, only to be outstripped by a peer who knew about trillions, squillions or kajillions (it didn’t matter if […]
As reports come in for the Donald Trump tax returns, interesting numbers are raising questions which auditors may question. In each year of his presidency, for example, Trump claimed he received exactly $18,000 in interest on a loan he said he gave his daughter Ivanka Trump and $8,715 in interest from his son Donald Trump, […]
In 2014, a survey launched by a British mathematics writer has found that seven is the world’s favorite number, reports The Guardian. The numbers three, eight and and four came in second, third and fourth. What makes this amusing is that I was about to do a post that told readers that 7 was my favorite […]
Super fast counting to produce super large numbers—the art of the abacus!
I love the “cover-up method” where I hide something and students are challenged to find the answer. For example, suggest some numbers that would make this new item make sense. Then check out the solutions in ‘Post Support’.