Tagged “recreational-math”
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Chalkdust Magazine
A free online magazine written by mathematicians for anyone curious about maths, featuring puzzle columns, crosswords, a…
Ed Pegg Jr.'s Math Puzzle
A veteran recreational mathematics site by puzzle columnist Ed Pegg Jr., archiving decades of original math puzzles, til…
Finding Waldo in Pi
Taking up an SMBC comic challenge, a math blogger searches the digits of pi for a sequence that can be drawn as a recogn…
Gathering 4 Gardner
A nonprofit celebrating puzzle popularizer Martin Gardner, hosting free videos, articles, and puzzle collections from th…
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Industrious Dice
Mathematician James Propp explores a puzzle about dice that do more than their share of work, a playful essay on probabi…
James Tanton's Mathematics
A prolific math educator's site of free puzzle sheets, videos, and 'thinking mathematics' essays that turn ordinary curi…
Math Challenge
A free archive of hundreds of recreational number theory and combinatorics puzzles, organized by topic and difficulty fo…
Math for Love
An educator-run site of free games and puzzles designed to make mathematical thinking genuinely enjoyable, including ori…
Math Munch
A weekly roundup blog serving up bite-sized recreational math discoveries, puzzles, and mathematical art for curious stu…
MathPages
A dense, decades-old archive of essays working through recreational and research-level math problems, from number theory…
MathPickle
A collection of unsolved-feeling, game-like math puzzles designed for classrooms but engaging for anyone, each built aro…
NRICH
A University of Cambridge project offering thousands of free rich mathematical puzzles and investigations for all ages,…
Open Middle
A free library of open-ended math problems with a fixed beginning and end but many possible paths, designed to spark dee…
Patterns, Code & Curiosity
A curiosity cabinet of homemade illustrations, Arctic and Antarctic cards, space posters and small web apps like a prime…
Play With Your Math
A weekly open math puzzle prompt shared with a global community of teachers and students, inviting genuine exploration r…
QEDCat
The site of mathematicians Burkard Polster and Marty Ross, packed with playful recreational math articles, videos, and p…
Singingbanana
Mathematician James Grime's site of recreational math curiosities, from intransitive dice to prime number oddities, writ…
Squares in Squares
A catalogue of the best known ways to pack n equal squares into a larger square, drawn as precise SVG diagrams, many wit…
Stand-up Maths
Comedian-mathematician Matt Parker's site collecting his recreational math projects, puzzle challenges, and playful inve…
Tanya Khovanova's Math Blog
A mathematician's blog of original puzzles, wordplay riddles, and recreational number theory problems, written with a re…
Tanya Khovanova's Math Page
Home page of a mathematician with popular essays, puzzles, number-theory curiosities and a weekly math blog, covering ma…
The Aperiodical
A group blog for recreational mathematics news, puzzle roundups, and the annual Big Internet Math-Off tournament pitting…
Top 10 Martin Gardner Physics Stumpers
A list of ten physics puzzles from Martin Gardner's writing, assembled for his centennial, each a brainteaser that rewar…
Wild Maths
A companion project to NRICH encouraging open-ended mathematical exploration and creativity through games, investigation…
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