Every few months, a math problem goes viral on social media. Disappointingly often, it lacks mathematical meat. It seems over half of them boil down to the order of operations. Some tweet will get ...

I’ve been out of school for decades, and I don’t spend my days solving equations (I’m more of a word person). Still, I like to think I have a solid grip on basic math: I can usually gauge whether a ...

A Brain Teaser is a fun way to challenge your thinking and logical skills. In these brain teasers, maths riddles are also a type of brain teaser, which are in numerical form, equation-based. These ...

The latest viral math problem involves a playful illustration of ice cream cones. It was created by artist Gergely Dudás, who is known for his tricky hidden object puzzles. The brainteaser consists of ...

IQ Test: You are among 1% of the people in the world with an IQ above 140 if you can solve this viral math puzzle in just 7 seconds. Go ahead and test your logical and analytical thinking skills with ...

She’s right—using simultaneous equations does get really complicated, and if you’d like to send me your work for the solution, I’d love to see it. But the system is also kind of a trick. Like a sudoku ...

On his popular YouTube channel, MindYourDecisions, mathematician Presh Talwalkar frequently digs up samples of classic college entrance exams so his followers can see how they’d fare in the days ...