Imagine someone handing you a scrap of net from a basketball hoop, with knotted red cord attached to the netting, and telling you this bit of string is a clue in a puzzle. How quickly — if ever — ...

I recently bought my toddler niece a wooden alphabet puzzle, happily recalling the time I spent with my own kids fitting the “A” shape into the cutout with the picture of an apple. During the toddler ...

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 ...