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 ...

Draw four lines beginning and ending at the gray points to break this square into pieces that can be rearranged into five identical squares. Bonus: Suppose you can use any number of lines that begin ...

Brain teasers are an excellent way to keep your mind sharp and engage your problem-solving skills. Ranging from simple to complex, these puzzles offer a fun yet challenging way to give your brain a ...

Try your hand at these tricky visual puzzles and give your brain a boost!

Optical illusions and visual puzzles are all the rage these days due to their ability to enthrall social media users. These brain teasers improve cognitive functions and are a fun way to pass the time ...

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 ...

A man walks down a down-moving escalator and reaches the bottom after taking 50 steps. As an experiment, he then runs up the same escalator, one step at a time, and reaches the top after taking 125 ...

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 ...