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 ...

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 ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? This triangle brain teaser isn’t new—shoutout to Popsugar for unearthing it a couple ...

When you think back on elementary school math, do you have fond memories of the countless worksheets you completed on adding fractions or solving division problems? Probably not. Researchers and ...

A new proof breaks a decades-long drought of progress on the problem of estimating the size of triangles created by cramming points into a square. Consider a square with a bunch of points inside. Take ...

Children’s blocks lie scattered on the floor. You start playing with them — squares, rectangles, triangles and hexagons — moving them around, flipping them over, seeing how they fit together. You feel ...