Last week my daughter had the following math question in her exam: “One portion of chips and a burger cost €8.31. Two portions of chips and a drink cost €6.45. One drink and a burger cost €7.71. How ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In 1993, Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős—one of the most prolific mathematicians of the 20th ...

As thousands of Year 11 students across the UK tackle their mock exams, one thing has teachers and parents equally stumped: the rise of the so-called “impossible” GCSE maths question. Lindsey Wright, ...

Doug Mataconis really threw the Twitter world for a loop when he challenged the internet to solve a math problem from 10 years ago. And it's safe to say anyone with an account had intense feelings ...