I like sudoku as much as anyone, but a change of pace might be nice occasionally. Enter Sweet 16, a new math puzzle game. As the name suggests it involves the numbers 1 through 16, and it's a bit like ...

Celebrate Pi Day and read all about how this number pops up across math and science on our special Pi Day page. It's Pi Day ...

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 ...

Jeff Smith's Math Puzzle for March 13, 2026 - Predictions about the past are amazingly accurate, but regarding the future they’re iffy. The post Math Puzzle for March 13, 2026 appeared first on ...

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 — ...

Draw four lines beginning and ending at the gray points to break this square into pieces that can be rearranged into five identical squares. Bonus: Suppose you can use any number of lines that begin ...

In the April Insights puzzle, I tried to guide readers down a path that might be best described as “experimental mathematics.” The goal was to rediscover two constants by iterating simple arithmetic ...

An important context for figuring out problems through reasoning is puzzle play, say researchers. Psychologists recently conducted a study that found two-four year-old children, who play with puzzles, ...