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Math Trivia
Math Games Make Math Fun

Math doesn't need to be boring...it should be fun!

There's quite a bit of math trivia (interesting facts about math) that you probably never realized.

Here's one you probably didn't know. The plus and minus sign symbols we use all the time has around since 1489 AD?

What about the equal sign we're very familiar with? The equal sign has been around since 1557. It was first used in England by a man named Robert Recorde.

Did you know that

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Don't believe it? Go ahead multilply it by hand. I'll wait...Just kidding. Grab the calculator and give it a shot. Did you try it? Pretty cool huh.

Have you given someone change for a dollar lately? Did you realize there are 293 ways to make change for a dollar?

If each count were a second long, it would take about 12 days to count to a million and about 32 years to count to a billion.

Check out some more math trivia here.

Forty' is the only number that has all its letters in alphabetical order.

153= 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14+15+16+17

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