Making numbers click with mathply

I've been messing around with mathply lately, and honestly, it's changed how I look at my bank account and grocery receipts. For the longest time, I was the person who would pull out a phone calculator just to figure out a 15% tip or try to split a dinner bill three ways. It wasn't that I couldn't do the math; it was just that the mental friction felt too high. Most of us carry around this weird, lingering "math anxiety" from high school, where a single misplaced decimal point felt like the end of the world. ...

April 27, 2026 · 7 min · Ashtiani Carli