My Goal

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My goal is to make mathematics more accessible and fun for everyone, and a big part of that is to explain mathematics using "easy language", but this requires a balancing act between precision and comprehension.

Let me explain: there is an educational concept called the spiral, which roughly means that a subject comes around again and again, always at a higher level. For example, a young person is taught that multiplication is just repeated addition. But then a year later the subject is revisited and multiplying by negatives is taught, then decimals come along ...

 
This is an illustration of 2 times -3. Observe that our toddler is (according to him) moving forward two paces at a time, but he does this three times in a negative direction. If he were stepping backwards two paces at a time while facing forwards, that would be -2 times 3. Have a look at [Multiplying by Negatives] for a longer description.

The Website

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And that is why I have developed (Math is Fun, or "Maths is Fun" in British English), to be a place where mathematics can be explained in a more "user-friendly" manner.

And like all people who embark on explaining Science to the general public I must at times leave out details which would only confuse, but it can be very hard to know where to draw the line.

So please forgive me, fellow Wikipedians, when I over-simplify! And correct me gently, but do correct me!

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Ellipse perimeter, simple formula:

 

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Ellipse perimeter, simple formula:

 

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A hexadecimal multiplication table

 

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From Set-builder notation

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  •   is the set  ,
  •   is the set of all positive real numbers,
  •   is the set of all even natural numbers,
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