Don’t know? Don’t feel bad. Six of the brightest math minds at Lincoln’s high schools couldn’t figure out that one Thursday. But they figured out plenty of other math problems that would have stymied ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A palindrome is a word, sentence or verse that reads the same forward and backwards, that is, from ...

When my daughter was barely five years old, I told her the phone number of someone we knew, a number that went something like “8448”. I then told her that the number was special, since it was a ...

Problem 1 is all about palindromes: words, phrases or numbers that read the same forwards or backwards. Maths teacher Chris Smith is here to explain. WOW! The Maths Week Scotland Daily Challenges have ...

Perhaps palindromes don’t need promotion. After all, the symmetry of numbers, words and phrases that are the same written backward as they are forward — such as “Madam, I’m Adam” — is pretty cool and ...