Jeff Smith's Math Puzzle for May 8, 2026 – He graduated at the bottom of his engineering class, now he’s reinventing the snow ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fourth grade math puzzles are turning lessons into engaging problem-solving experiences. From KenKen-style grids to themed number riddles, these activities mix fun with skill development. Educators ...

The problem is this: use all 12 matches to form, in similar fashion, the perimeter of a polygon with an area of exactly four ...

The New York Times has added a new daily Wordle-style puzzle game to its library in the form of Digits. This collection of math conundrums tasks you with reaching a designated number by using six ...

Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson, who surprised the math world when they produced innovative solutions to a 2,000-year-old puzzle, wowed the math world again when they presented several new ways of ...

A jigsaw puzzle company wants to design a new rectangular puzzle with a specific quirk: it must have the same number of edge pieces and interior pieces. Each piece begins as a square of the same size, ...

In 2023, I posed 23 challenges as part of the Gizmodo Monday Puzzle series. Some require a bit of math, and others a light familiarity with physics; but most can be solved through logic and creative ...