Percentages are a way to represent a proportion of a number or a shape. Proportion tells you how much of one thing there is in relation to the whole. The word per cent means 'out of 100', so a ...

A mathematical brain teaser challenges people to solve the matchstick equation in just two moves. The puzzle uses matchsticks to create an equation that shows 3 + 3 = 8 and instructs viewers to make ...

Mrs Brown has two jars of sweets. The jars contain the same number of sweets in total. The most important parts of this question are 25% of the sweets in Jar A are mint and two fifths of Jar B are ...

Alan Veliz-Cuba has received funding from the Simons Foundation and the American Mathematical Society for some of his research. You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an ...

The internet is torn over an elementary-level math equation which left many scratching their heads. The viral math problem has X users stumped - but the answer comes from lessons learned in fifth or ...