Math is not everyone’s favorite, understandably. Hours of math homework and difficult equations can make anyone sour on the subject. But when math problems are outside of a school setting, there’s no ...

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In addition to making kids laugh (or groan!) and think, riddles are a powerful way to promote a love of reading. Sure, there's no characters or extended plot, but examining sentence structure, ...

Grown-ups aren’t the only ones who enjoy a good thought-provoking question. Riddles are just brain-teasers that use language. They help us exercise our brains in a different way than we normally do ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As you may remember from your own childhood, a really good brainteaser is particularly useful for easily bored kids: they make us ...

Parents teach young children to love books by reading to them, often at bedtime. Laura and John Overdeck love math, so they started giving their kids a word problem to solve each night before tucking ...