Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2019, mathematicians finally solved a math puzzle that had stumped them for decades. It’s called a Diophantine Equation, and it ...

A graphic artist is testing everyone’s knowledge of algebra and spot-the-difference skills with a pictograph math problem that assigns numbers to different fruits. Gergely Dudás, of Hungary Budapest, ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...

June the ant has to crawl along the surface of four different 3-D objects to reach her dinner. Your job is to help her find the shortest path along the surface of each object, so that she can chow ...

Brain teaser puzzles test the reader's critical thinking and problem-solving skills by challenging them to solve a problem. These challenges have the potential to boost intelligence and improve ...

Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson, who surprised the math world when they produced innovative solutions to a 2,000-year-old puzzle, wowed the math world again when they presented several new ways of ...

Move two matchsticks to make this equation correct. Show puzzle solution Here’s one solution. We’d love to hear from you! E-mail us at games@sciam.com to share your experience. This puzzle originally ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...

Teaching math to English learners in middle and high school requires a nuanced approach. Those students are often at very different places in their language development and in their academic grounding ...

One of the challenges to getting students engaged in math is the perception that it’s a subject where you sit at a desk and do 30 math problems alone. There are a number of ways to make math more ...