Road Sign Math

Road Sign Math has needed mapping since it was launched months ago. We’ve now integrated the amazing Google Map capability into the site by using the API that Google provides. Check out the new map view of winning signs. You can access this view from the top navigation at anytime and it allows you to [...]

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This sign from the Massachusetts Turnpike is submitted by first-time Road Sign Math enthusiast, Randy Weiss. It really seems that there is a fever for mathematically significant roadsigns in the Northeast. When Road Sign Math debuted an early visitor commented that this game would not be very worthwhile on the east coast since the [...]

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Another sign from Wellsboro, PA (see Wellsboro) from Pennsylvania road sign afficionado David Slauenwhite. This sign points to highway 660 which will take you directly to the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania, and connects the village of Ansonia which is the northern terminus of the trail that goes through said canyon. This sign assembly [...]

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Another sign from Pennsylvania? Absolutely! This sign comes to us just outside of Mansfield, PA. Mansfield should hold a special place in the heart of any football fans, however, most probably don’t even know why! In 1892, the very first night football game ever was played in Mansfield. Now, each September the game is [...]

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Another Pennsylvania sign from Mr. Slauenwhite. Wellsboro is a town of beauty and culture rich in natural resources and the County Seat of Tioga County, might be set down in any section of New England and find itself in familiar surroundings. Founded in 1806 by settlers from Delaware, Maryland and Philadelphia, it was incorporated [...]

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This sign, the 40th mathematically significant roadsign is a real “barnburner”! The accomplishments of this 40th sign are many fold. First, it’s only the 2nd constant sign ever found, and the first one that results in pi (see Euler, Anybody, Euler). Secondly, it is the first sign for another state, bringing Connecticut to [...]

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Pennsylvania furthers it’s string of mathematically significant roadsigns with another find from, you guessed it, David Slauenwhite. Hawley is a city with significant history. The history of Hawley is rich with many industries, mainly coal.

This is the type of wonderful sign that spurned the creation of Road Sign Math. It’s so blazingly obvious, with [...]

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The Frontier State makes its introduction with mathematically significant roadsigns with this sign found by David Slauenwhite. In addition to being an interesting mathematical sign, notice that all the cities on the sign start with C. Alaska is no place to travel with a low tank of gas!

A sign with a city named Circle in [...]

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For quite some time we have searched for better ways to display the formulas for our mathematically significant roadsigns. The obvious place to look was for MathML, however, browser support for MathML is almost nil.
A visitor to Road Sign Math pointed out a great tool called jsMath written by Davide P. Cervone. This JavaScript [...]

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Massachusetts brings us another mathematically significant roadsign, delivered from the wary eyes of Road Sign Math superstar David Slauenwhite. The city that brings us this sign is known as “Whip City”. Interestingly enough, in the 1800’s this city was the prominent supplier of buggy whips to the entire country. If you needed to get a few [...]

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