Source: Thunder Bay, Canada. Used with permission of Dan Hunt, MD. Coincidences attract our attention because they seem weird, odd, or unlikely. Their improbability stimulates wonder—“what are the ...

The Weekend Edition Saturday Math Guy, Stanford professor Keith Devlin, has a problem. In fact, he has more than one... which he's happy to share with Scott Simon. What is the probability that in a ...

More specifically, a solution to the recurrence relation is a value that satisfies "if each child call terminates with probability t, the parent call terminates with probability t" but a solution to ...

Your guides to the weird side of the web explain the Monty Hall problem and the math of probability.

From Monopoly to Backgammon to Yahtzee, our first experiences with board games almost always feature sets of six-sided dice. They’re a great way to create some randomness and chaos in a game, but ...

Are you smarter than a third grader in Vietnam? Woman image via www.shutterstock.com It’s been quite a year for mathematics problems on the internet. In the last few months, three questions have been ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the intersection of learning, research, and technology. It’s often said that the best teachers don’t teach their ...