Math problems aren’t always easy to figure out. They require practice and experience to master, especially if you don’t have much time to spend learning. These seemingly simple numbers and equations ...

Counting will get you nowhere. Try a little combinatorics instead. By Kenneth Chang A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a viral math problem — 8÷2(2+2) = ? — that drew the disdain of many ...

Oh, sorry! Did we greet you the wrong way? Well if so, then you are going to enjoy these math riddles even more today. When it comes to math, not everyone smiles. Not everyone raised their hands in ...

Author Ed Southall of Solve My Maths shared a math problem on Twitter asking people to figure out what fraction of a square is shaded pink. Twitter users struggled to figure it out, but some got it ...

Pi Day (3/14) often comes with sweet treats; Square Root Day (4/4/16 or 5/5/25, for example) has a certain numerical rhyme.

Well, what is the best way to cut a sandwich in half? Surely triangles don't really have "more sandwich," right? That's geometry and the law of conservation of matter. But something about the ...

Interior angles in a triangle add up to 180˚. Triangles close triangleA polygon with three straight sides. have three sides, therefore they have three angles. Interior angles in a triangle sum to a ...

Everyone learns the number one rule about triangles in high school: the angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees. But did you know that sometimes they don't? Triangles are much more interesting than ...