Iranian game maker Mahdi Bahrami’s Engare allows users to create their own intricate patterns found in Islamic art and architecture. The intricate geometric patterns of Islamic art are not only ...

Here’s a simple number game to play on a rainy day, or while sheltering in place. You and I take turns crossing out numbers from the list {1, 2, 3, …, 9}. The winner is the last person to cross out a ...

Are you a fan of escape rooms? You don’t actually need to leave the house since there are plenty of virtual escape rooms on the internet. One such escape room is Trace, from Cool Maths Games, and if ...

If math was never your strongest subject, take a number. But veteran teacher Courtney Phillips discovered math is hidden in an ancient game. In 20 years as a 4th grade teacher, she observed that math ...

In 1974, a geneticist named Marsha Jean Falco devised an ingenious research tool to help determine whether epilepsy in dogs was an inherited trait. She drew a series of symbols on index cards, where ...