I’ve been out of school for decades, and I don’t spend my days solving equations (I’m more of a word person). Still, I like to think I have a solid grip on basic math: I can usually gauge whether a ...

You have a sharp brain if you can solve this math puzzle. Test your problem-solving skills and intelligence now! Math puzzles test readers' critical thinking skills by challenging them to solve ...

Recent studies show that the less likely someone is to use procedural solutions, the better they tend to be at more abstract problem-solving—and gender is a significant predictor. In a new study, ...

A seemingly impossible math puzzle, discovered stuck to a tree by a passing hiker, has left the internet well and truly stumped. Despite living in an increasingly digital world, math remains something ...

Every few months, the Internet eats itself over some kind of viral riddle or illusion, each more infuriating than the last. And so, like clockwork, this maddening math problem has gone viral, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Everyone agreed on the first step: Solve inside the parentheses, for 2+2=4. But after that, people split down two paths. Some multiplied first, while others divided, leading to different answers—1 and ...

Oh, no, math wants us to solve it's problems again... The equation is even stumping mathematicians, with some people adamant about the answer being 1 while others swear it's 16. And this equals 4. Now ...