Road Sign Math

Georgia, the Peach state, has it’s first mathematically significant roadsign submitted by Road Sign Math first-timer Pam Coffield. She found this sign while driving over Pine Mountain on the southern foothills of the Appalachian Trail.

This sign is classic in it’s straight-forward math. Indeed, this sign is in the very spirit of the founding of Road [...]

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Another in the series of signs from lover of mathematically significant road signs, David Slauenwhite. After introducing RSM to New York, David wasted no time extending us into our 10th state with a winning sign from Massachusetts. (Ed.: Don’t worry, there are 40 more opportunities to get the vaunted gold star designation of the first [...]

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Another mathematically significant roadsign from rural New York found by previous winner David Slauenwhite. Harpursville is too small to leave much of a trace on the Internet but the city of Binghamton is a good sized college town with around 47,000 people. Binghamton is known as the “carousel capital of the world“ with [...]

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Our first sign from New York, the Empire state, comes not from the hustle of New York City but instead from the small town (very small town, 925 people as of 2000) of Millerton, which ironically is in the Harlem Valley which seems to have no relationship to the Harlem in Manhattan. This sign [...]

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This winning sign takes us to Des Moines, Iowa and is the second submission from fellow enthusiast for mathematically significant road signs and Iowa native, Jim Bernard. This sign is best described in Jim’s own words.

Dear Road Sign Math,
Please find my respectful submission to your totally awesome game. I took this picture while driving [...]

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Long before the game of finding mathematically significant road signs, this sign used to always catch my eye. Black Dog Road. It sounds like a place where some mystery happened years ago. If you were sitting around a campfire with your grandpa you could easily envision him whipping out a story about the Ghost [...]

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This winning sign takes us to beautiful Ames, Iowa, where biotech comes to life. You may know Ames for the University, but it is also well known for housing the USDA Veterinary Labs (one of only two in the country). Ames is a city filled with history, including a nod to the first black college football [...]

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