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r/CasualMath↗

For the crummy mathematician.

This is a subreddit that is meant to be somewhere inbetween /r/math and /r/learnmath.

18k subscribers226 posts / mo in Sep 2026131 authors / mosince 2010

r/CasualMath has 18k members (+16% over the last 12 months). It gets about 226 posts a month from 131 people. Top topics: Math Equations, Mathematics Classroom Experience and YouTube Math Channels.

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How r/CasualMath has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+16%in 12 months · +6.1% in 3 months · +2.5% in 1 month
Oct 202618k
Growing18k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/CasualMath

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+653%vs Sep 2025 · +219% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026226
BusierPeaked at 372 in Mar 2023
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/CasualMath

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Math Equations4.4%
  2. Mathematics Classroom Experience1.6%
  3. YouTube Math Channels0.7%
  4. FractalArt0.6%
  5. HateMathLearn0.5%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Apple
  2. Substack
  3. Zenodo
  4. arXiv.org e-Print archive
  5. Wolfram Research (United Kingdom)

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research