The math puzzle that you come across in Amanda the Adventurer occurs in the "In Your Neighborhood" tape when you're attempting to unlock "A Hollow End" conclusion. The following is the solution to the ...

Every few months, a math problem goes viral on social media. Disappointingly often, it lacks mathematical meat. It seems over half of them boil down to the order of operations. Some tweet will get ...

Fourth grade math puzzles are turning lessons into engaging problem-solving experiences. From KenKen-style grids to themed number riddles, these activities mix fun with skill development. Educators ...

The problem is this: use all 12 matches to form, in similar fashion, the perimeter of a polygon with an area of exactly four ...

Jenny Quinn, executive director of the Seattle Universal Math Museum, shows off a solved Fibonacci sequence puzzle. (GeekWire Photo / Maddie Stoll) Jenny Quinn travels with math in her backpack. She ...

A blizzard is a real test of the social contract. Nature dumps 12 to 18 inches of inconvenience uniformly across an entire community and leaves it up to you and your neighbors to sort out the mess.

In 2000 the Clay Mathematics Institute offered a cool million bucks for the answer to any of the seven math problems that they’ve deemed the hardest in the world. The Millennium Problems: The Seven ...

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 ...