A tricky math question on a second grader's assignment left one mother puzzled. In fact, she was so stumped by the word problem that she turned to the internet for help. Angie Werner called on fellow ...

Novelist Celeste Ng has shared a head-scratching system of equations that her 9-year-old son apparently made up over dinner: At dinner, 9yo made up a math problem and made his father and me solve it.

A system of nonlinear equations is harder to solve than you think—and more of a puzzle than a math problem. Puzzles like this require you to look and find the one loose end you can pull to unravel the ...

A system of nonlinear equations is harder to solve than you think—and more of a puzzle than a math problem. Puzzles like this require you to look and find the one loose end you can pull to unravel the ...

A tricky math problem on a standardized test in Britain has gone viral after stumped test takers took to social media to express their outrage. The probability equation involving orange candies was ...