Maths Resources (page 40)

Rule of three simple and compound 1. Out of a sample of 2100 people, 682 people in a public opinion poll pointed out they would cast their vote for a particular nominee. How many ...

Vulgar Fractions: Doesn't it sound rude? Actually not as our larger understanding of vulgarity is related to movies and whenever we think something is lacking sophistication or not in...

Just wondering why we were not told much about Fibonacci numbers in schools though they were discovered by Indians but made popular by Leonardo Pisano aka. Fibonacci, the famous Itali...

I`m a big advocate of looking at this - given time I always try and fit this into my A level maths lessons. The reason being it gives a real sense of why differentiation works. Unf...

10 Easy Steps to be a genius at Mathematics: 1. First, very important thing is not to try to solve the exercise too quickly. Most people are too quick to start writing, without ha...

Any set of objects together with a set of rules of allowable operations (such as multiplication or division) that behaves in an internally consistent ("closed") manner is ca...

Clifford Lie Algebra of Hyper Complex Numbers The group of transformation matrices from which a "spinor" is realised is related to a set of "Hyper-complex" numbers discovered by H...

The Fallibility of Mathematics ADAM JASKO When I was young, and indeed to this day, I loved experimenting to discover interesting results or perhaps to verify results already kn...

Classically, the universe behaves in a weakly chaotic manner. All it`s clockwork-like cyclicality is mostly illusory. The apparent simple periodicity observed in the universe belies a...

There are a lot of tricks to multiply numbers in your head more quickly - read on to discover a few! Multiply by 9: Use your hands! To multiply 7 by 9 hold your hands in front...