It’s been a tough year for parents trying to keep up with their kids in math. Last March, a North Carolina father tried to help his son with a word problem and ended up writing a note to the teacher ...

See if you can figure out Cheryl’s birthday, the Singapore logic problem that’s got the Internet twisted into knots. Some are even saying it’s the math equivalent of the “What color is the dress” ...

Just when you thought you've seen it all, a math problem goes viral. A math problem. This word problem from a Singapore high school has puzzled internet users for the past few days. A hypothetical ...

First, it was The Dress. Then, it was a cat going up — or down — a flight of stairs. Now a math problem is the latest viral phenomenon to stump the Internet. Kenneth Kong, the host of TV's Hello ...

The Weekend Edition Saturday Math Guy, Stanford professor Keith Devlin, has a problem. In fact, he has more than one... which he's happy to share with Scott Simon. What is the probability that in a ...

When, exactly, is Cheryl’s birthday? A charming logic puzzle led to much hand-wringing over this question in the past week. A prompt about two men, Albert and Bernard, trying to figure out a woman’s ...

In a recent paper – Birth, Death, Coincidences and Occupancies: Solutions and Applications of Generalized Birthday and Occupancy Problems – Miami University professor of Electrical and Computer ...

(via SciShow) There's a rather famous problem in math of probability called the Birthday Paradox. Let's get into how it works, and how creative uses of this hypothetical problem have real-world ...

Never mind the color of that dress: When is Cheryl's birthday? The latest viral puzzler to stump the Internet started out as a question for students in Singapore and spread around the world after it ...