Math

Corey Feldman might be a little off with his math during an interview with Steve-O but his confidence is not shaken.

You would think that the answer would be more intuitive, but it's actually very much not so.

A question on the 2014 qualifying exam for the US Physics Olympiad team rubbed some people the wrong way so Derek Muller decided to rent a helicopter and find out the correct answer.

"X+Y" features a scene about a math problem involving random cards that has captured the imagination of the internet. Here's a comprehensive explanation of the answer to the math question.

So you got accepted at MIT (What? Like it's hard?), you enrolled in an astrophysics class and you're taking your first exam. Here's how difficult your tests is going to be.

How Sally Clark was wrongfully convicted of infanticide after a pediatrician made a serious statistical error.

Presh Talwalkar from Mind Your Decisions is back with a surface area problem involving one triangle and a set of parallel lines.

Students at Cambridge were tasked with solving this math problem in 1801. How long would it take you to solve the equation in this day and age?

Meet the Collatz conjecture, a math problem with a simple premise that no one has been able to solve. Why is this problem such a head scratcher?

If you ever need to guess an answer for a multiple-choice question in a test, here's a strategy you can use.

It's not necessarily a faster way to multiply numbers, but it's certainly an interesting way to go about it.

This chef tried to make a puff pastry with 1 million layers — is he out of his mind or a complete genius? Please enjoy this extraordinary challenge.

If you ever wondered whether or not your friends are more popular than you are, there's actually math that proves your beliefs are accurate.

We may not be good at tackling puzzles like this, but we sure like watching other people solve them.

Math Olympiad problems may not be that much of a challenge for the people who are competing, but this one is a real head-scratcher for us.

This question from the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is a head-scratcher but here's one way to solve it.

2 + 2 is a no brainer, right? It turns out, mathematicians have found that it doesn't have to equal 4. Sabine Hossenfelder explains why.

The problem lies within the problem itself.

What is the shortest possible time three people can reach a destination with a bike that can only carry two people at the same time?

Ben Stephens tweeted a math hack that went viral and people are wondering why their teachers didn't teach them this method in the first place.