Math riddles and number puzzles that challenge your lateral thinking. Test your logic and calculation skills with these numerical conundrums. Get the obvious answers to math riddles.
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Do you love math? Love numbers? Love the thrill of problem solving and the quiet satisfaction of finding that one right answer? If so, these math puzzles and riddles in mathematics are just for you!
One is to three as three is to five and five is to four and four is the magic number.
What is the pattern?
Answer:
One has three letters in the word three has five letters in it five has four letters and four has four letters in it (if you try more numbers they will always come back to the number four: so four is the magic number)
How can you make the following equation true by drawing only one straight line: 5+5+5=550? Can you figure it out?
Answer:
Draw a line on the first plus sign that turns it into a 4! The equation then becomes true: 545+5=550. You could also change the equal symbol to a crossed out equal symbol which means "not equal to".
