When my students grow too dependent on their calculators, I ask them to find a number that, when multiplied by itself, gives them 2. Students quickly see that since 1² = 1 and 2² = 4, the answer has ...

Weird Math sets out to “reveal the strange connections between math and everyday life.” The book fulfills that laudable goal, in part. At times, teenage math prodigy Agnijo Banerjee and his tutor, ...

Answer: 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000. This is the kind of math riddle you can work out with times tables, or by simple logic. First, get as close to 1,000 as you can (888). From there, it’s easy to ...

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...

Until the late Renaissance, there were few symbols to depict clearly and concisely what would later become known as an equation. Numbers and numerical problems were framed in words and sentences.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Mathematics started with numbers—clear, concrete, intuitive. Over the last two centuries, however, it has become a far more abstract ...

Thanks for joining me today. My name's Mrs. Gray, and I can't wait to do math with you, Today, we're gonna be doing a word problem with our friend Professor Barble. We're also going to be doing snap ...

Math Riddles with Answers: Let us solve another interesting and difficult math puzzle. In this Missing Number Series Puzzle, you need to find the missing number in the place of the question mark in ...