As soon as people leave school, many leave maths behind happily. So much of our daily maths problems are tackled with the help of computers anyway- working out the total cost of your shopping, how ...

A number sequence has gone viral on the internet this week, reading: 2, 6, 12, 20, 30, ?. At first glance, it looks easy, but once people start solving it, they realize spotting the pattern is not so ...

All you have to do to solve this puzzle is work out which number comes next in the sequence shown in the picture above. The sequence is as follows: "1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, (?)". How would you start to work ...

Problem 6 is all about sequences and finding missing information. Maths teacher Chris Smith and pupils from Grange Academy are here to explain. The Maths Week Scotland Daily Challenges have been set ...

Some of the most satisfying number puzzles require little mathematical know-how. In fact, cracking the one below calls for thinking that is quite nonmathematical. I don’t know where or when I first ...

Here's a deeply satisfying number pattern for your mathematical Monday. Here, Numberphile explains the Kolakoski sequence, which begins as follows: 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2 ...