Sudoku and other puzzles can incorporate play and critical thinking skills, while easing students into solving standard math ...

Blizzards are a real-life example of what game theorists call the “snowdrift problem,” a cousin of the prisoner’s dilemma ...

Math puzzles are a good way to test your critical thinking skills. Math puzzles can boost analytical thinking and ...

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Math puzzles test readers' critical thinking skills by challenging them to solve problems. Math puzzles can boost analytical ...

DeepMind has used a large language model (LLM) to generate a novel solution to one of humanity’s toughest math problems — in a breakthrough that could herald a new era in AI development. The model, ...

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 ...

This month, we visit a trendy (but fictional) spa with an unusual feature: hot mud beds. You lay a plastic sheet on the mud. Then you lay your body upon the sheet. Without any direct contact between ...

A brain teaser challenge is a type of IQ test that mostly involves solving a puzzle, cracking a code, finding a hidden object or mistake, or detecting the fault in the image. Brain teaser puzzles test ...