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Our friends at Brilliant post fun, daily challenges on math, science and engineering topics every day. Try out a few of these challenges on their website by clicking the links below! If you do not yet...

Did you know that October 8 was National Chess Day? Try out these Chess puzzles to celebrate! Thank you to the folks at ChessKid.com for sharing these great problems with us and supporting kids' love...

Due to timekeeping confusion on the American railroads in the mid-19th century, a system of standard time zones was proposed. In 1918 the Standard Zone Time and Daylight Saving Time were established...

The weekend has just begun, and Derek wants to build a snowman either on Saturday or Sunday, but he can only build a snowman if it snows. There is a 1/2 probability that it snows on Saturday, and a 1...

Every year on the third Monday of January, we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Dr. King was a civil rights activist whose passion and leadership led to great cultural changes in America. On Aug...

Troy, Elliott and Shaun are three contestants on a game show. In one of the rounds of the game show, the 3 contestants have a chance to spin a wheel up to two times in a row to try to get the highest...

Civil engineers design and build all sorts of infrastructure projects, such as bridges, buildings, roads and railways. Civil engineers must be precise and technical, creative and flexible to ensure...

March 14, or 3/14, is Pi Day because the first few digits of the number pi are 3.14! While the day celebrates the mathematical type of pi, it is a little more fun to celebrate the delicious pie that...

The scoring pattern used in a game of tennis can be confusing, as it doesn’t appear to follow the expected pattern. Tennis points go like this: Love (0 points), 15, 30, 40. You may be asking, “Why not...

A baby rabbit moves 5 inches forward with each hop and his mother moves 14 inches forward with each hop. After the mother and baby each hop 10 hops in the same direction, the mother stops and waits...