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 ...

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 ...

Among the natural numbers below 100, there are 30 with a special property. Jovan has listed them in the table here. But Jovan made a mistake, and one of these numbers must be replaced. Which number ...

I like sudoku as much as anyone, but a change of pace might be nice occasionally. Enter Sweet 16, a new math puzzle game. As the name suggests it involves the numbers 1 through 16, and it's a bit like ...

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 ...

Find one million consecutive positive numbers, none of which are prime. Ancient math tells us that prime numbers (2, 3, 5, 7, 11, ...,), which have no factors except for 1 and themselves, go on ...

A brain teaser is a short, playful puzzle designed to make your mind stretch and smile. It could be a riddle, a tricky question, a visual illusion, or a logic twist that nudges you to think beyond the ...

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