Advertisement

Readers like you keep news free for everyone.

More than 5,000 readers have already pitched in to keep free access to The Journal.

For the price of one cup of coffee each week you can help keep paywalls away.

Support us today
Not now
Wednesday 29 March 2023 Dublin: 13°C

# Mathematics

Last year
2022
# brainteaser
Maths Week: Your Thursday puzzle
Day 6 – and this is a tough one. Follow the instructions closely.
14.0k
3
Oct 20th 2022, 7:00 PM
# Maths
Maths Week: Sunday puzzle
Fancy another mathematics challenge? (And get the answer to yesterday’s puzzle.)
21.4k
7
Oct 16th 2022, 7:00 PM
All time
# Maths
Maths Week: Saturday puzzles
Fancy another mathematics challenge? (And get the answer to yesterday’s puzzles.)
16.9k
1
Oct 23rd 2021, 6:00 PM
# Maths
Maths Week: Friday puzzles
Fancy another mathematics challenge? (And get the answer to yesterday’s puzzles.)
13.6k
0
Oct 22nd 2021, 6:00 PM
# Maths
Maths Week: Thursday puzzles
Fancy another mathematics challenge? (And get the answer to Tuesday’s puzzle.)
18.8k
3
Oct 21st 2021, 6:00 PM
# Maths
Maths Week: Tuesday puzzle
Fancy another mathematics challenge? (And get the answer to yesterday’s puzzle.)
20.4k
10
Oct 19th 2021, 6:00 PM
# Maths
Maths Week: Monday puzzle
Fancy another mathematics challenge? (And get the answer to yesterday’s puzzle.)
19.2k
19
Oct 18th 2021, 7:57 PM
# Maths
Maths Week: Sunday puzzle
Fancy another mathematics challenge? (And get the answer to yesterday’s puzzle.)
24.1k
5
Oct 17th 2021, 6:00 PM
# trial and improve
Maths Week: Your Saturday puzzle
Fancy a mathematics challenge?
30.9k
11
Oct 16th 2021, 6:00 PM
# Treasure Trove
Maths Week: Your Monday puzzle
Fancy a mathematics challenge?
49.2k
24
Oct 12th 2020, 6:15 AM
# buzz buzz
Bees have brains that can figure out basic maths, new study finds
The researchers built on their previous finding that honeybees can understand the concept of zero.
13.9k
24
Feb 9th 2019, 10:45 AM
# QED
Maths Week: The solutions to your puzzles
Tens of thousands of you took our mathematical challenge all week. Here are the answers.
16.7k
8
Oct 23rd 2016, 10:00 AM
# Final Countdown
Maths Week: Your Saturday evening puzzle
Figure it out.
18.8k
21
Oct 22nd 2016, 8:15 PM
# cosine in the membrane
Maths Week: Your Saturday morning puzzle
Part One.
16.1k
21
Oct 22nd 2016, 10:00 AM
# sins of life
Maths Week: Your Friday puzzle
Figure it out.
15.7k
31
Oct 21st 2016, 8:30 PM
# the remix to addition
Maths Week: Your Thursday puzzle
Figure it out.
20.3k
30
Oct 20th 2016, 8:30 PM
# go forth and multiply
Maths Week: Your Wednesday puzzle
Figure it out.
19.9k
31
Oct 19th 2016, 8:30 PM
# laws of subtraction
Maths Week: Your Tuesday puzzle
Figure it out.
29.1k
52
Oct 18th 2016, 8:30 PM
Voices
The maths gene? It all adds up to a myth
The founder of Maths Week on how everyone can get to grips with the basics – and how we need to for everyday life.
1.1k
42
Oct 15th 2016, 9:30 AM
# maths week
MATHS WEEK: Take our final puzzle of the week
Can you figure this one out?
18.3k
30
Oct 18th 2015, 11:15 AM
# One Two Three
MATHS WEEK: Try today's puzzle and explore some new cities
Can you figure this one out?
20.0k
25
Oct 16th 2015, 11:15 AM
# maths week
MATHS WEEK: Figure out this puzzle using the genius of George Boole
Can you figure this out?
16.3k
32
Oct 15th 2015, 12:37 PM
# One Two Three
MATHS WEEK: See how you do with Tuesday's pirate puzzle
Can you figure this one out?
13.0k
15
Oct 13th 2015, 12:04 PM
# One Two Three
Maths Week: Test yourself with this simple, timely brainteaser
Can you figure this one out?
26.4k
22
Oct 12th 2015, 11:30 AM
# doesn't add up
Can you solve this fiendishly difficult maths question?
1 + 1 = 2
28.0k
47
Jun 6th 2015, 9:00 AM
# a beautiful mind
A Beautiful Mind genius John Nash killed in car crash
He was 86.
32.5k
42
May 24th 2015, 3:30 PM
Voices
More fascinating than fiction: The women codebreakers of WWII
A closer look at the women cryptographers who were instrumental in the Allied war effort against the Nazis.
1.7k
31
Apr 22nd 2015, 9:15 PM
# maths entertainment
Here's how to beat anyone at rock-paper-scissors
According to a Chinese mathematician.
16.6k
22
Dec 7th 2014, 8:00 AM
# it all adds up
Maths Week puzzles: The Answers
Each day this week we’ve been tickling your brains with numerical teasers – here are the answers you’ve been waiting for.
13.1k
30
Oct 17th 2014, 4:30 PM
# it all adds up
Maths Week: Friday's puzzle of the day
We’re setting you a little brainteaser each day this week to highlight a drive to improve the country’s numeracy skills.
13.3k
41
Oct 17th 2014, 3:00 PM
# it all adds up
Maths Week: Thursday's puzzle of the day
We’re setting you a little brainteaser each day this week to highlight a drive to improve the country’s numeracy skills.
20.2k
17
Oct 16th 2014, 3:00 PM
Voices
Opinion: I've always had a passion for maths but was often unmotivated – until now
Transition Year student Hannah Leonard describes the inspiring experience of being a competitor in the MATHletes Challenge 2014.
346
5
Oct 14th 2014, 8:00 PM
# it all adds up
Maths Week: Tuesday's puzzle of the day
We’re setting you a little brainteaser each day this week to highlight a drive to improve the country’s numeracy skills.
14.7k
87
Oct 14th 2014, 1:00 PM
# it all adds up
Maths Week: Monday's puzzle of the day
We’re setting you a little brainteaser each day this week to highlight a drive to improve the country’s numeracy skills.
22.8k
21
Oct 13th 2014, 3:00 PM
Voices
These handy tips will help develop your child's maths skills (without them knowing it)
Fun ways to make maths count without it being a chore.
694
1
Oct 11th 2014, 6:30 PM
Voices
Opinion: The gender gap remains in tech and science – and it's hurting companies
Investors are missing a trick by not investing in women; if the whole tech and investment community were to work together we could create fantastic companies and jobs.
121
74
Jun 29th 2014, 7:30 PM
Voices
Opinion: Have a positive impact on Ireland’s society and economy – choose a STEM career
Leaving Cert students: consider courses in science, technology, engineering and maths. They’ll give you transferable, mobile skills that are needed in almost every sector.
500
38
Jun 3rd 2014, 1:00 PM
Voices
Column: What does this week’s major physics breakthrough actually mean?
A new discovery has shed light on the beginning of the universe itself and will help us to understand how gravitational extremes like black holes work, writes Conor Farrell.
62
84
Mar 20th 2014, 1:00 PM
Voices
Column: Unlike many of my peers, I was given the amazing opportunity to work at CERN
There is no public scientific institution its equal to CERN – yet young Irish people continue to be excluded from it, writes James Casey.
211
13
Mar 5th 2014, 8:00 AM
Voices
Column: Can girls STEM the tide of emigration?
Misconceptions about science, technology, engineering and mathematics are dissuading girls from taking them as subjects – doing a disservice to them and wider society, writes Dr Kirsten Foy.
191
29
Feb 19th 2014, 7:00 AM
1
2
Next Articles