Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a ...

Each term in this sequence is doubling (multiplying by 2) to create the next term. Number sequences are sets of numbers that follow a pattern or a rule. If the rule is to multiply or divide by a ...

Finding evidence of ancient mathematics isn’t easy outside of written records, but a new study suggests that floral pottery from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia shows evidence of geometry ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

Scientific American presents Math Dudeby Quick and Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick and Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. It’s not often someone suggests that knowing some math could ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 85, No. 16 (Aug. 15, 1988), pp. 5913-5917 (5 pages) A statistical method of comparative sequence analysis that ...

THERE is discontent as to the condition of geometry teaching in schools, and in the search for remedies the question has been reopened whether there should bean “agreed” sequence. It appears from the ...

You will need to be confident with arithmetic sequences and the 𝑛th term rule to understand these other types of sequences. A geometric sequence contains numbers that are multiplied by a certain ...