Sudoku and other puzzles can incorporate play and critical thinking skills, while easing students into solving standard math problems.

Here, count with me: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, T, 11, 12 … Oh, what’s that? You write ten with “zero”? Fair enough. Zero, we have been told, is the ...

A math puzzle is a type of brain teaser that tests the reader's critical thinking and problem-solving skills by challenging them to solve a problem. These challenges have the potential to boost ...

Assign the digits 0 through 9 to the letters below to create valid sums. Each letter stands for a unique digit, and all occurrences of that letter stand for the same digit. (For instance, if A = 6, ...

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 ...

A challenging brainteaser tests critical thinking with a math problem of finding the missing value: 3 - 3 x 6 + 2 = ?. Solvers have seven seconds to use the BODMAS rule. Frequent practice of such ...