Puzzle 1: You are given nine gold coins that look identical. You are told that one of them is fake, and that this coin weighs ...

A version of this puzzle originally appeared in the October 1960 issue of Scientific American. What’s the Most Distant Galaxy ...

This holiday-themed brainteaser looks simple, but it's quietly tripping up adults everywhere. A math teacher walks us through ...

Leeds is set to become the UK's first City of Maths, a new two-year initiative aimed at transforming the way people think and ...

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 ...

Calculating Frosty’s weight with fragments of high school geometry. The post Math Puzzle for December 26, 2025 appeared first on Alameda Post.

Puzzles are a hands-on way to explore simpler and complex mathematical relationships, for everyone from kids to calculus students.

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OK, you’re pretty good at identifying the person in our weekly mystery photo contest. But how sharp are you at math puzzles? You can find out to the left. We present three puzzles that were provided ...

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 ...

Holidays bring celebration, rest and, for many families, long stretches of indoor time. For some, this means tabletop games quickly reappear on kitchen tables. Games provide opportunities for learning ...