Want to stretch your kids' critical thinking abilities? Logic puzzles are great problem-solving activities that teach logical reasoning, organizational skills, and critical thinking. Our logic puzzles ...

Jack Murtagh is a freelance math writer and puzzle creator. He writes a column on mathematical curiosities for Scientific ...

Math is not everyone's favorite, understandably. Hours of math homework and difficult equations can make anyone sour on the subject. But when math problems are outside of a school setting, there's no ...

As an academic discipline, logic is the study of reasoning. Logic puzzles, therefore, involve making a series of inferences and assessing them using reasoning. Easier logic puzzles for kids tend to ...

In 1996, the mathematical logician George Boolos (above) published a paper describing “the hardest logic puzzle ever” which he attributed to the logician Raymond Smullyan. The puzzle has gained much ...

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We are hardly ever consciously aware that we use logic to solve everyday problems. But what is logic? Is the logic used to prove theorems in mathematics the same kind that we use for our practical ...