20 Cool Facts About Maths 🔢

If you were to play a word association game with a school-aged child, you’d be pretty unlikely to get a response of ‘cool’ when you asked them what word first came into their mind when you said ‘maths’. Despite what some people may tell you, maths is far from dull. On the contrary, there are plenty of fun and strange maths-related facts out there that will fascinate children of all ages. To prove this, we’ve compiled a list of 20 cool facts about maths which we encourage you to share with the children in your life.

13. Zero is not represented in Roman numerals.

14. The word “mathematics” only appears in one Shakespearean play, “The Taming of the Shrew”.

15. -40 °C is equal to -40 °F.

16. In France, a pie chart is sometimes referred to as a “camembert”.

17. The symbol for division (i....