The Rubik's Cube dates to my childhood, when it was for leaving on a desk to be fiddled with — or, for a select few strange birds, for actually solving, sometimes very quickly. At that time, knowing ...

Seventh and eight grade math students at Elk Ridge Middle School in South Jordan spent their last day of school making mosaics with Rubik's Cubes. Watch the video above to see how their math skills ...

The simple Rubik's Cube is a harder problem than most people realize. Using the currently provided best algorithm for solving the cube, for example, would take the computer you're reading this on now ...

LAKEVILLE, Mass. (AP) — Whenever possible, Nate Eleuterio likes to make his math classes at Freetown-Lakeville Middle School fun. The teacher promised to give extra credit to the student who could ...

Which math toy for kids is best? According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, playing is one of the best ways a child can learn important concepts. Educational math and counting toys, like blocks, ...

A termite starts at the center of the face of any one of the edge cubes and bores a path that takes it through every cube ...

The brain twister that is the Rubik's cube has not only befuddled many people that have tried to solve it, but it has also stumped mathematicians. Earlier this year, researchers deciphered the classic ...

In 2010, an international team of researchers proved that no matter how scrambled a Rubik’s cube got, it would require no more than 20 moves to solve it. Their proof, however, relied on the equivalent ...

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