It’s the end of the year and it’s time for us to look back at the most popular posts of 2012. We look at the most popular posts in terms…

It’s almost the end of the year. Before I post the Year in Review Series, here are the most popular posts for the fourth quarter of 2012. The Seven Wonders…

Since it’s Christmas, I am going to share to you about something that relates Christmas and Mathematics:Gift Wrapping. If you are wondering what is the relationship between that two, have…

The Pythagorean Theorem is probably the most popular theorem in school mathematics. Surely, you have heard or read about it at least once from elementary school to high school. The…

This is the sixth part of the Amazing Number Patterns Series. In this part, we examine more amazing patterns that result from multiplication of numbers. Pattern 1 987 654 321…

You have probably heard the light year in your science class, and your teacher probably told you how far it is. Some of you have probably no idea where did…

When calculators were not yet invented, it was hard for mathematicians to approximate irrational numbers. The irrational numbers was the offshoot of the discovery that the side length of the…

Pascal’s Triangle is a triangular array of numbers where each number on the “interior” of the triangle is the sum of the two numbers directly above it.  It was named…

It’s 24 days before Christmas! Today, the the first day of December, let us celebrate the 7 most popular posts last month of Mathematical Palette. The Most Popular Posts Tangent…

The Fibonacci Sequence The Fibonacci sequence is the sequence of integers 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21,…  or  1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, … As…

Yesterday, while doodling with some problems, I remembered an addition trick that I learned when I was still in elementary school. The number trick involves predicting the sum of five…

This is the fifth post in the Amazing Number Patterns series. In this post, we show that the the sum of the first odd integers is . What does that…