Scientific American presentsMath Dudeby Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. In the last Math Dude episode, we learned the ins and outs of ...

Excerpted from "The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life." Numbers were invented to describe precise amounts: three teeth, seven days, twelve goats. When quantities are ...

When you do not need to speak or write about exact quantities or measures, learning to round numbers to 10, 100 or 1,000 can be useful. It can make calculations easier and it also helps when you are ...

Scientific American presentsMath Dudeby Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. At some point in your life, you were most likely taught how to ...

Use place value cards to practice rounding numbers to the nearest ten and hundred. Warm up with a Mystery Math Mistake to hunt for the mistake made counting up on the number line. Use place value ...

The ROUNDDOWN function is a Math and Trigonometry function in Microsoft Excel, and its purpose is to round a number down towards zero. The formula for the ROUNDDOWN function is ROUNDDOWN(number, ...