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 ...

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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 ...

The arrangement leaves gaps in the square’s four corners, two of which are filled with smaller circles that just barely touch ...

Do you call yourself a math genius? Well, if yes, then we are sure you must love solving math puzzles and questions. Some of these questions leave us scratching our heads. But, finding solutions to ...

A math puzzle is a problem or challenge that requires mathematical thinking and problem-solving skills to find a solution. These puzzles can take various forms and often involve numerical calculations ...

Playing with arithmetic can lead us to unexpected and profound discoveries that point toward deeper mathematics and sometimes even deeper science. We solved our last Insights puzzle by performing some ...

In the April Insights puzzle, I tried to guide readers down a path that might be best described as “experimental mathematics.” The goal was to rediscover two constants by iterating simple arithmetic ...