You are participating in a holiday gift exchange with a few classmates. You each write down your own name on a slip of paper and fold it up. Then all the students place their names into a single hat.

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A math puzzle is a type of brain teaser that tests the reader's critical thinking and problem-solving skills by challenging ...

Brain teasers are excellent puzzle games for providing the brain with an effective mental workout. This math puzzle is a type ...

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 ...

Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His ...