The Great Pyramid of Giza is often treated as a monument of stone, but it also functions as a monument of numbers. I see at ...

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When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1974, five years before he wrote his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter was ...

Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying the word ...

Word problems are often described as “math stories” and can put complex mathematical operations into a more approachable form for students. But students often struggle when they see a combination of ...

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This story was written by Andrew Joseph. It was reported by Lizzy Lawrence, Helen Branswell, Megan Molteni, Jason Mast, Jonathan Wosen, Bob Herman, Tara Bannow, Sarah Todd, and Matthew Herper. Beyond ...

A dad in Virginia ended up turning to social media for help after becoming confused by a first-grade math problem. Math seems to be a problem for many young Americans. In 2022, the Programme for ...

ESPN college broadcaster Karl Ravech has been getting torched on social media for a recent gaffe in which he seemed genuinely shocked that the powerhouse SEC was .500 in league play. Of course, in ...

As you fill out a crossword, it can abruptly shift from fiendishly difficult to extremely simple. This is similar to the way some physical systems undergo a phase transition – but compared to them, ...