Tricky Math Riddles: The brain needs regular exercise to function well, and nothing stimulates it like solving riddles, puzzles, and brain teasers. These are fun and easy-to-do things that can work ...

I don’t typically write responses to other opinion pieces, but there was one two weeks ago about new techniques in elementary math education that has inspired me. The main complaint was that there are ...

The confusion (likely intentional) boiled down to a discrepancy between the math rules used in grade school and in high school. By Steven Strogatz Recently I wrote about a math equation that had ...