Duah: Using puzzles, both at home and in classrooms, can restore the often-forgotten truth that learning happens in ...

Our recent suite of puzzles featured the humble double-pan balance scale, historically a symbol of commerce and government, art and science. Balance scales are also popular in recreational mathematics ...

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 ...

Whether it’s automating tedious coding tasks, solving complex logic puzzles, or even weighing in on ethical dilemmas, AI tools like OpenAI’s o3-Mini promise to make our lives easier. But let’s be ...

Solve these six puzzles, then find each region of the image below that contains one of the answers and colour it brown. Each answer may appear more than once. 1. Holly added up the first four odd ...

Some of the most satisfying number puzzles require little mathematical know-how. In fact, cracking the one below calls for thinking that is quite nonmathematical. I don’t know where or when I first ...

Research in mathematics is a deeply imaginative and intuitive process. This might come as a surprise for those who are still recovering from high-school algebra. What does the world look like at the ...