Davies’ Dailies - Mister Math Skills

“Math is everywhere and yet, we may not recognize it because it doesn’t look like the math we did in school. Math in the world around us sometimes seems invisible. But math is present in our world all the time — in the workplace, in our homes, and in life in general.

You may be asking yourself, “How is math everywhere in my life? I’m not an engineer or an accountant or a computer expert” Math is in your life from the time you wake until the time you go to sleep. You are using math each time you set your alarm, buy groceries, mix a baby’s formula, keep score or time at an athletic event, wallpaper a room, decide what type of tennis shoe to buy, or wrap a present. Have you ever asked yourself, “Did I get the correct change?” or “Do I have enough gasoline to drive 20 miles?” or “Do I have enough juice to fill all my children’s thermoses for lunch?” or “Do I have enough bread for the week?” Math is all this and much, much more.”

Patsy F. Kanter, in Helping your Child Learn Math

This website will be dedicated to providing news and information on the way people use maths on a daily basis in a fun and sometimes useful manner, and cover the topics of essential math skills, arithmetic tips, unexpected math uses and helpful math tools. The audience will consist of any and all human being who has demonstrated even a remotely vague interest in grooming his math skills. While I will be adding posts every day about what I call “gems of math wisdom”, I do expect others to join me on this journey. I am doing this not only because I want to bring math literacy to the rest of us, but also because I want to organize the world’s math information and make it easily accessible.

My name is Jean-Marie Moes, I’m the founder of a brand new company code-named “Lightning Maths”.

Why “Lightning Maths”, will you ask? I was indeed struck by mathematics almost a third of a century ago, almost a lifetime love affair… In 2006, I was searching for a business to create, when a course on how to build a successful Internet-based venture led me to the discovery of the works of a 19th century West Point professor named Charles Davies, whose arithmetic method was used at the time by millions of Americans.