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Who says math can't be fun?! Try these math puzzles for a delightful challenge. Math is not everyone’s favorite, understandably. Hours of math homework and difficult equations can make anyone sour on ...

Riddles, puzzles, and brain teasers can develop strategic thinking, logical reasoning, and problem-solving skills. Today, we bring you another set of math puzzles which are all over social media.

Imagine that you have three boxes: one containing two black marbles, another containing two white marbles and a third containing one black marble and one white marble. The boxes were labeled for their ...

Imagine someone handing you a scrap of net from a basketball hoop, with knotted red cord attached to the netting, and telling you this bit of string is a clue in a puzzle. How quickly — if ever — ...

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 ...

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