This holiday-themed brainteaser looks simple, but it's quietly tripping up adults everywhere. A math teacher walks us through solving it.

Life gets busy, and sometimes those basic math skills from school days get a little rusty. Whether you're budgeting, measuring for a DIY project, or just having a math-related brain teaser thrown your ...

An apparently easy-looking math problem has left internet users scratching their heads. The elementary-grade problem looks simple enough to solve in seconds, but has tripped up the masses. The basic ...

Every so often it's good to exercise your brain with a math problem or two that forces you to recall principles you learned decades prior. As elementary as it might feel, you'd be surprised how easy ...

Simple math equations grow harder when we're out of practice. As time goes on we forget the elementary rules of math and compound problems become more and more challenging. That's why a simple math ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Math education is ...

When one thinks of mathematics, the thought that comes to most peoples’ heads is solving an equation and getting a correct answer. That is the case with many mathematical theorems, including one of ...