1. Why do we break numbers into tens and ones? Choose a two-digit number and explain how partitioning it helps you understand how big it is. 2. What does the position of a digit tell us about its ...

Just a year before his death in 1920 at the age of 32, mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan came upon a remarkable pattern in a special list of whole numbers. The list represented counts of how many ways ...

Researchers have found a fractal pattern underlying everyday math. In the process, they’ve discovered a way to calculate partition numbers, a challenge that’s stymied mathematicians for centuries.