Many years ago, a friend showed me this bit of mathematical trivia that thrilled us both no end: And then there’s the one I believed, for a while, was my own totally innovative discovery (it wasn’t).

This is the second in a two-part series. Part one can be found here. The debate over what early math should look like and what should be included in the Common Core State Standards for math is one of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mathematicians love sequences, and they pop up all over the field. Sequences are simply numbers listed in a given order. The ...

Here’s a simple number game to play on a rainy day, or while sheltering in place. You and I take turns crossing out numbers from the list {1, 2, 3, …, 9}. The winner is the last person to cross out a ...

Imagine I present you with a line of cards labelled 1 through to n, where n is some incredibly large number. I ask you to remove a certain number of cards – which ones you choose is up to you, ...

A $1 million prize has been awarded to a mathematician for work that could one day unlock the secrets of prime numbers. The King of Norway will officially present the prestigious Abel prize in ...