How to: Find Out The Length of a Side on a Right Angled Triangle

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Formula = O2 + A2 = H2.


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Great Googols: How Large is a Googol in Real Terms?

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How large is a googol in real terms? The number of grains of sand lying on the beach at Coney Island has been calculated at about 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 – one followed by only 20 zeros. Much smaller than a googol!


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Perfect, Friendly Numbers: Mathematical Puzzles That Still Challenge

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The mathematicians of ancient Greece attributed characters to numbers and awarded some of the status of perfection. For Euclid, one of the finding fathers of modern mathematics, a perfect number was one that equaled the sum of its own divisors – that is numbers that will divide into it without leaving a remainder. The first perfect number is 6: its divisors are 1, 2, and 3, 14 which add up to 6. The second is 28 (1 + two + four + seven + 14). The Greeks knew only two other perfect: 496 and 8,128.


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Online Resources for Children Learning Basic Math

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Here is a list of some good websites that can aid your child’s Maths. Hope you find it useful.


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2+2=5

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“Wait! What?!” I hear you cry. Well, in some cases, it’s true.


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How to Mentally Calculate

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Some tips to help you do your maths mentally, if you have some trouble.


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Maths Problems and Solutions

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Negatives,Positives,Inequalities and Equalities.


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How to Solve Quadratic Equations

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How to solve Quadratic Equations in the ax² + bx + c = zero format.


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Pythagoras and His Theory

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Who Pythagoras was, what he did, and a brief summary of his theorem.


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Magic Numbers

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There are numbers that retain all the same digits when you multiply them. Are they magic?


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