Math & Numbers Facts for Kids

The Fibonacci sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13...) appears everywhere in nature, from flower petals to pinecone spirals.

When asked to pick a random number between 1 and 10, most people choose 7.

Roman numerals are still used today on clock faces, in movie credits, and for Super Bowl numbers.

Infinity is not actually a number — it's a concept that means something goes on forever without end.

The ancient Mayans used a base-20 number system (we use base-10), likely because they counted on both fingers and toes.

The equals sign (=) was invented in 1557 by Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was tired of writing "is equal to."

Honeybees can understand the concept of zero, which makes them one of the few animals that can.

A palindrome number reads the same forwards and backwards, like 12321 — multiply any palindrome by 11 and you might get another one!

No number from one to nine hundred ninety-nine, when written out in English, contains the letter "a" — the first one is "one thousand."

A googolplex is 10 to the power of a googol — a number so big you couldn't write all its zeros even if you filled the entire universe.