A well-rounded Frosty becomes an icy cube Frosty. The post Math Puzzle for January 2, 2026 appeared first on Alameda Post.

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You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

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Calculating Frosty’s weight with fragments of high school geometry. The post Math Puzzle for December 26, 2025 appeared first on Alameda Post.

It took 125 years, but in 2025 a team of mathematicians discovered the solution to a long-puzzling problem about the ...

Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a grueling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William Lowell Putnam ...

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A New Jersey mom found herself so confused by her six-year-old daughter’s math homework, she had to ask the teacher for help. The school year is a stressful time for parents. A 2025 Ipsos survey of ...

To do the method, begin by writing the two numbers you want to multiply at the top of two columns. In the left column, you progressively halve the number and take the integer floor of any “and a half” ...

Mathematicians present the Nopertedro: a Rupert property solid that broke an old myth by preventing one copy from passing through another.

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