Mathematics has always been a subject that many students struggle with, yet brain teasers incorporating maths seem to have a special allure. These tricky puzzles continue to captivate internet users, ...

Montgomery Blair High School student Rishik Shenolikar turned a small pandemic tutoring effort into Potomac PiRates Inc., a ...

Math is not everyone’s favorite, understandably. Hours of math homework and difficult equations can make anyone sour on the subject. But when math problems are outside of a school setting, there’s no ...

An amusing parlor trick is performed as follows. Ask spectator A to jot down any three-digit number and then to repeat the digits in the same order to make a six-digit number (e.g., 394,394). With ...

The inside of a bus may not seem like the ideal place to rekindle your interest in math, but a group of mathematicians is betting it will. Last month, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute of ...

Exactly how many triangles can you count in this fun triangle puzzle?

The following is adapted from the introduction to “The Riddler: Fantastic Puzzles from FiveThirtyEight,” published by W. W. Norton & Co. It is in stores today! The world’s oldest collection of math ...

Here, count with me: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, T, 11, 12 … Oh, what’s that? You write ten with “zero”? Fair enough. Zero, we have been told, is the ...

Imagine that you have before you two beakers, one containing a liter of water; the other, a liter of wine. One cubic centimeter of water is transferred to the beaker of wine and the wine and water ...