Sometimes BODMAS is just PEMDAS by another name. And no, the answer is not 100. By Steven Strogatz Mathematical Twitter is normally a quiet, well-ordered place, a refuge from the aggravations of the ...

So why is this happening? According to one Twitter user, the answer depends on which mathematician you listen to: It's either 1 or 16 depending on which mathematician you listen to, because order of ...

A brain teaser that has been doing the rounds on social media was shared with the claim that most people ‘will get it wrong’. The brain teaser asks a seemingly simple maths question, and people need ...

But this question continues to stump people online since it first went viral two years ago as there is not one, but two possible correct answers – and how you answer will depend on how you were taught ...

The confusion (likely intentional) boiled down to a discrepancy between the math rules used in grade school and in high school. By Steven Strogatz Recently I wrote about a math equation that had ...

It began early this week when a Twitter user named Em tweeted the equation 8 ÷ 2(2 + 2) = ?. Many calculated the problem and came up with an answer of 16. But others did the math just as confidently ...

Do you think of yourself as a bit of a genius? How about a maths whizz? If so, check out this baffling calculation that has stumped the internet. Keeping your brain active is known to help improve ...

It's a seemingly simple sum with no big numbers or complex equations. The only problem is no one can agree on the answer — and millions of people have been trying to show they can solve it. The maths ...