Learning to count whole numbers is fun and easy. However, once you realize that a period could be a decimal point and that adding zeros may not matter at all or may matter a whole lot, math gets a lot trickier. 0.2 is greater than 0.02 in the decimal system. To the left of the …
Mathematics seems to throw letters our way on occasion, despite consisting primarily of numbers. We can forgive this in algebra, but when those letters seem to twist into strange symbols like the upside-down T, many of us feel lost all over again. The upside-down T (or ⊥) refers to perpendicular lines, which are two lines …
We all use money day in and day out, whether that money comes in the form of cash, credit, a check, or an app on your smartphone. No matter what currency, all money has one thing in common: it must be divisible. To say that money is divisible means that a government produces money in …
Imagine writing a paper for your English class. The requirements state that there can be “at most” 10 pages and “at least” 4 to 7 sources. But what do these phrases mean? “At most” refers to a maximum amount, while “at least” generally refers to a minimum. “At most” means that any number less than …
Math is one of those love-it-or-hate-it subjects. It is simple for some, but for others, it’s a bottomless pit of despair. Math is not only rife with symbols; it also has many processes — one of which is the backward Z. The backward Z is a mathematical process that allows you to add two fractions …
Numbers give us information about things and allow us to count, label, and measure items in our world, but because there are so many ways that we use numbers, they are not always that easy to categorize. For instance, are numbers adjectives? Numbers are not adjectives, they are “determiners” or “quantifiers” when they appear before …