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

• 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.

• 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.)
  • Notches (cuts or indentation) on animal bones prove that humans have been doing mathematics since around 30,000 BC.
  • The word ‘hundrath’ in Old Norse (old language from where English language originated), from which word ‘hundred’ derives, meant not 100 but 120.
  • What comes after a million, billion and trillion? A quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion and undecillion.
  • The number 5 is pronounced as 'Ha' in Thai language.555 is also used by some as slang for 'HaHaHa'.
  • Different names for the number 0 include zero, nought, naught, nil, zilch and zip.
  • Zero ( 0 ) is the only number which can not be represented by Roman numerals.