A Little Bit Fact of Math


Unknown Facts :

1. The word 'mathematics'
comes from the Greek
máthēma, which means
learning, study, science.

2. Do you know a word known
as Dyscalculia? Dyscalculia
means difficulty in learning
arithmetic, such as
difficulty in understanding
numbers, and learning
maths facts!

3. In America, mathematics is
known as ‘math’, they say
that ‘mathematics’
functions as a singular
noun so as per them ‘math’
should be singular too.

4. Do you know ‘Mathematics’
is an anagram of ‘me
asthmatic’. (An Anagram is
word or phrase made by
transposing or rearranging
letter of other words or
phrase.)

5. Notches (cuts or
indentation) on animal
bones prove that humans
have been doing
mathematics since around
30,000 BC.

6. The word ‘hundrath’ in Old
Norse (old language from
where English language
originated), from which
word ‘hundred’ derives,
meant not 100 but 120.

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