Four Cambridge math students in the 1930s wanted to know if you could fill a square with smaller squares, each a different ...

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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 ...

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 ...

It's a math puzzle designed for third graders, but many adults are having trouble solving it. The puzzle looks something like Scrabble, with a series of boxes that snake up, down and across a page.

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