The inside of a bus may not seem like the ideal place to rekindle your interest in math, but a group of mathematicians is betting it will. Last month, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute of ...

A well-rounded Frosty becomes an icy cube Frosty. The post Math Puzzle for January 2, 2026 appeared first on Alameda Post.

CHICAGO — Allie Hays’ friends had a good laugh when they heard about the class she had signed up for at North Central College in Naperville, Ill.: Mathematics of Square Dancing. Hays thought it was ...

For over a century, a simple yet tricky math problem had continued to baffle experts. Mathematicians struggled to find the fewest number of pieces needed to cut an equilateral triangle and rearrange ...

This square is divided into 36 smaller squares. There are 91 squares in total. Because the big square has a side length of 6, there are six different square sizes ...

Sayonara, Sudoku. For a better-rounded puzzle that includes not just logic, but math, too, try KenKen. It's probably even good for you. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

If you suspend a Rubik’s Cube near the corner of a room and shine lights at its exposed faces, it will cast square shadows on two walls and the floor. A real-world Rubik’s Cube has a gadget at its ...

Golden Rectangle ruthlessly mined just to form a cone. The post Math Puzzle for December 19, 2025 appeared first on Alameda Post.

In new research posted last month to the ArXiV preprint server (meaning the work has not yet been peer-reviewed) biophysics researcher Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, Ph.D., and her family explore a vital ...