For over a century, a simple yet tricky math problem had continued to baffle experts. Mathematicians struggled to find the fewest number of pieces needed to cut an equilateral triangle and rearrange ...

Maths teacher Chris Smith is on your side and equal to solving this. The Maths Week Scotland Daily Challenges have been set by the Scottish Mathematical Council. Chris Smith: - In this problem we’re ...

Named for Plato, who theorized that the classical elements were made of these regular polyhedrons, three of the Platonic solids are composed of equilateral triangles: the tetrahedron, octahedron, and ...

So, what's with the biscuits? Oh a triangulator machine! Very cool! Right, there are four different types of triangle. First, here's an isosceles triangle, it has two equal length sides and two equal ...