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

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 ...

Solve the math puzzle from our February 2026 issue, where we plan a return passage for a robotic explorer that doesn’t want ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...