Cool Maths Facts PDF

Handwriting Cool Maths Facts Copy the sentences onto the lines below. Concentrate on keeping your writing clear and legible. 1. Forty is the only number that is spelt with its letters arranged in alphabetical order.   2. Conversely, one is the only number spelt with its letters arranged i...

Handwriting Cool Maths Facts Copy the sentences onto the lines below. Concentrate on keeping your writing clear and legible. 1. Forty is the only number that is spelt with its letters arranged in alphabetical order.   2. Conversely, one is the only number spelt with its letters arranged in descending order.   3. Maths symbols were invented in the sixteenth century; before that they were written in words.   4. The division symbol is technically known as an obelus.   5. The word mathematics appears only once in all of Shakespeare’s plays.   6. In France, a pie chart is sometimes called a camembert.   7. Zero isn’t represented in Roman numerals because the Romans didn’t consider it a number.   8. A googol is one followed by a hundred zeros; a googolplex is one followed by a googol zeros.   9. Zeros is the plural form of zero; zeroes is a verb meaning to adjust to zero.   10. A jiffy is an actual unit of time measuring one hundredth of a second.