A jigsaw puzzle company wants to design a new rectangular puzzle with a specific quirk: it must have the same number of edge ...

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 ...

A new study finds that middle and high school students differ in how they solve logic puzzles, with older teens showing better statistical reasoning under time pressure but still lacking adult-level ...

The following is adapted from the introduction to “The Riddler: Fantastic Puzzles from FiveThirtyEight,” published by W. W. Norton & Co. It is in stores today! The world’s oldest collection of math ...

From the Wikipedia page devoted to the “Monty Hall problem“: Suppose you’re on a game show like “Let’s Make a Deal,” and you’re given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a new car; behind ...