I like sudoku as much as anyone, but a change of pace might be nice occasionally. Enter Sweet 16, a new math puzzle game. As the name suggests it involves the numbers 1 through 16, and it's a bit like ...

Take the pressure off of problem-solving with engaging thinking games that encourage students to work together to find ...

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 ...

Jeff Smith's Math Puzzle for January 30, 2026 - Studying dodecagons in the dodecanese. The post Math Puzzle for January 30, 2026 appeared first on Alameda Post.

If the cards shown here are rearranged to form four new poker hands of five cards each, what is the lowest possible winning ...

Mode = the most frequently occurring number in the set. (Note: if there are multiple most frequently occurring numbers in a dataset, the mode is not unique. All modes in this puzzle are unique) Range ...

The hour, minute and second hands of this clock are all the same length and move smoothly in a circle. The dial contains hour and minute markers, but the numbers are missing. Therefore, it’s ...

In the April Insights puzzle, I tried to guide readers down a path that might be best described as “experimental mathematics.” The goal was to rediscover two constants by iterating simple arithmetic ...

Playing with arithmetic can lead us to unexpected and profound discoveries that point toward deeper mathematics and sometimes even deeper science. We solved our last Insights puzzle by performing some ...