Almost 30 years ago, a group of Kaktovik students invented a numbering system that reflected the way they counted in Iñupiaq and made math more intuitive for them. Soon, anyone in the world will be ...

(TNS) — Almost 30 years ago, a group of Kaktovik students invented a numbering system that reflected the way they counted in Iñupiaq and made math more intuitive for them. Soon, anyone in the world ...

Before the 13th century Europeans used Roman numerals to do arithmetic. Leonardo of Pisa, better known today as Fibonacci, is largely responsible for the adoption of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system in ...

In 1202 Leonardo da Pisa (aka Fibonacci) taught Western Europe how to do arithmetic with Arabic numerals. In Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's... Though generations of schoolchildren have cursed arithmetic, ...

Have you ever carefully noticed the digits we use every day - 1, 2, 3, and so on? Have you asked yourself where they came from? Most people think, since we refer to them as "Arabic numerals," that ...

India invented Zero - and the numbers we use daily. Why are we still calling them Arabic numerals? In a stirring and historically grounded conversation with NDTV, Professor Manjul Bhargava, one of the ...

Here’s something Sr. Mary Agatha, your 8th-grade math teacher, never taught you. Before Hindu-Arabic numerals were widespread throughout Christendom, the Cistercian monks throughout Europe in the ...