Sudoku and other puzzles can incorporate play and critical thinking skills, while easing students into solving standard math ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article was originally published in The Conversation. Holidays bring celebration, rest and, for many families, long stretches ...

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 ...

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

Math puzzles test readers' critical thinking skills by challenging them to solve problems. Math puzzles can boost analytical ...

A Brain Teaser is a fun way to challenge your thinking and logical skills. In these brain teasers, maths riddles are also a type of brain teaser, which are in numerical form, equation-based. These ...

In recreational mathematics, the balance scale is an endless source of puzzles that require precise and elaborate logic and teach the fundamentals of generalization. Balance-scale puzzles abound in ...

Sudoku fan? After diving into the math behind the game, test your skills with our very own puzzles in SciAm Games! Computer science seemingly rides a curve of unstoppable progress. Mere decades took ...

Last December, we published our 2017 Science and Math Crossword as a holiday gift to Quanta readers. This year, I’m happy to say, it’s back by popular demand. The 2018 crossword is similar to the 2017 ...

Holidays bring celebration, rest and, for many families, long stretches of indoor time. For some, this means table top games quickly reappear on kitchen tables. Games provide opportunities for ...