The Merriam Webster dictionary defines addition as: a part added, the act or process of adding; especially the operation of combining numbers so as to obtain an equivalent simple quantity. This simple...

The stroke of midnight, January 1, 2001, was feared by millions of people who believed that after the year 1999, the world's computers would fail, leaving neighborhoods, businesses, and communities wi...

No doubt you will have heard of the sorts of people who are maths prodigies, their performance outstripping the rest of us by miles. One such prodigy is Shakuntala Devi.   She has travelled the worl...

For millennia there has been the need to learn times tables. Ian Stewart of the University of Warwick says that ancient civilizations used them including the Babylonians who put them on clay tablets. ...

The school curriculum has increased and this has also affected mathematics. This has led to the time teachers can give to teaching times tables becoming less and less. This means that the parent has...

Public events and conferences are high-capacity activities that require ingenuity and charisma from those who chose to create them. Because the planners will be accommodating many people, they will ne...