From age-related puzzles to tricky optical illusions and mind-bending number games, brain teasers are a fun way to test your ...

The puzzle, presented in a simple but intriguing format, reads: "1 + 2 × 3 - 4 + 5 = ?" Check out the puzzle here: This ...

Math for girls is cool. Just ask Sophia Henningsen, founder and president of Project Noether, the student-based math club ...

A new study from the University of Kansas explores the role of working memory in word problem-solving for students with and ...

Most of the questions on a seven-item financial literacy quiz involve elementary math. Only 4% of Americans got all seven ...

Numeracy skills continue to fall, with a new Grattan Institute report warning that 1.3 million students risk graduating without basic maths skills. It found one in three students are failing to ...

Some students at Harvard are playing catch-up on a year-long remedial math course aimed at rectifying a "lack of foundational" skills believed to be exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, but some ...

"Without any SAT or ACT scores on their applications, no wonder kids without basic math skills were able to slip through the cracks. The school should have seen this coming," she wrote in a piece ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

President Trump on Wednesday announced a minimum 10% tariff for all U.S. trading partners. To calculate the tariffs, the White House used a formula that focused on trade deficits and total exports ...

But in the end, the tariffs boil down to simple maths, casting doubt on the idea that Sir Keir Starmer’s lobbying efforts in the US had any influence on the outcome. The reciprocal rates are ...