MATH RIDDLES

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Different types of riddles have challenged people for centuries, here are a few facts about them that may give you some hints in solving these challenging questions:
  • Riddles in math are used by math teachers in many different cultures.
  • Many teachers promote the idea that giving students mathematical riddles helps to encourage their pupils to think more creatively and strategically.
  • These riddles are considered especially helpful in classrooms where students have emotional problems, as it pulls them away from their problems, and forces them to think creatively about what is before them.
  • Detectives are sometimes forced to solve riddles involving math when searching for psychopaths and serial killers.
  • Math riddles are used at home by many parents seeking to help their students become more engaged in their math schoolwork/homework.
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    Two Planes

    Hint:
    They will be the same distance away when they meet.
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    What Are Your Chances?

    Hint:
    0%. No matter which answer you choose you are incorrect. All of the answers create a logic loop.
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    How Many Children?

    Hint:
    He has 5 children, all of the daughters have the same 1 brother.
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    3000 Apples

    Hint:
    833 apples.

    Step one: First you want to make 3 trips of 1,000 apples 333 miles. You will be left with 2,001 apples and 667 miles to go.

    Step two: Next you want to take 2 trips of 1,000 apples 500 miles. You will be left with 1,000 apples and 167 miles to go (you have to leave an apple behind).

    Step three: Finally, you travel the last 167 miles with one load of 1,000 apples and are left with 833 apples in Bananaville.
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    What Weighs More?

    Hint:
    They both weigh a ton.
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    A Man In New York City

    Hint:
    When he gets on the subway it is 6 stops away from the end of the line (end of the track). So when it reaches this point it begins to work backwards. So when it goes back one stop he has traveled 7 stops but is only 5 away from where he began.
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    Figure Out The Sequence

    Hint: Each number describes the previous number.
    The next number it: 13112221. Each number describes the previous number. Starting with 1, the second line describes it 11 (one 1). Then the third line describes 11 as 21 (two 1's). Then the fourth line describes 21 as 1211 (one 2, one 1). This is the pattern.
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    Telephone Pad

    Hint:
    Zero
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    Positive Numbers

    Hint:
    1, 2, and 3.
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    Closed Areas Riddle

    Hint:
    4

    Look at how many closed areas there are.

    9999 has 4 closed areas (the top of the '9')
    8888 has 8 closed areas, the top and bottom parts of the 8 and there are no other digits
    1816 has 3 closed areas, (top and bottom of 8 and bottom of 6, and it has 2 other digits ( 3*2=6)
    1212 has 0 closed areas,(0*4=0)
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    1. Why was the math book sad? Because it had too many problems.

    2. Why don’t mathematicians sunbathe at the beach? Because they use imaginary numbers.

    3. What did the math teacher say to her students on Valentine’s Day? "Let’s make some propositions!"

    4. Why do math teachers love geometry? Because it’s plane fun.

    5. Why was six afraid of seven? Because seven eight nine.

    6. Why do mathematicians love parks? Because of all the natural logarithms.

    7. What’s the best way to impress a math teacher? Multiply yourself and add your standard deviation.

    8. What do you get when you cross a math teacher and a clock? Time tables.

    9. How can you tell if a math teacher is hungry? They start talking about Pie.

    10. Did you hear about the math expert who’s afraid of negative numbers? He will stop at nothing to avoid them.

    11. How do construction workers do math? With a calculator-i!

    12. What do you get when you cross a math teacher and a train? A geometric progression.

    13. Why do math teachers love chicken? Because it’s a good source of pi protein.

    14. What did the calculus teacher say to her students who were failing? "Don’t integrate yourself into a problem that you can’t differentiate your way out of."

    15. Why was the math book sad after prom? All its angles were acute, and the book felt so…almost right-angled.

    16. What did the math teacher say to his students who were having trouble understanding fractions? "The key to understanding fractions is to pick up the pieces."

    17. Why was the geometry class always tired? Because they were constantly finding the hypotenuse.

    18. What is the plural of "summit"? Math teachers would tell you it’s "summation."

    19. What do you say when you see a math teacher eating a sandwich? Square root of ‘yum’?

    20. What do you call a number that can’t keep still? A roamin’ numeral!

    21. Why did the math professor take out a loan? To sine on the dotted line.

    22. Why couldn’t the bicycle stand up by itself? Because it was two-tired!

    23. Why did the math student fail his exam? He couldn’t solve any of the problems on the standard deviation curve.

    24. Why was the math book so tense? Because it had too many problems to solve.

    25. Why do mathematicians like stories? Because they always have a good plot and sets of numbers.

    26. Why did the math teacher go to the circus? To see the math-tractions!

    27. Why don’t mathematicians ride motorcycles? They don’t like to take chances with angles.

    28. What’s a math teacher’s favorite day of the week? Pi Day!

    29. What do you call the number 7 and the number 3 when they go on a date? A product of their times.

    30. Why did the math teacher cross the road? To get to the calculator on the other side.

    31. Why was the math book so afraid of the circle? Because it was perfectly round.

    32. What do you call a group of math teachers? Geometree.

    33. Why was the math student’s dream so vivid? Because it was linear.

    34. Why do mathematicians like nature? Because it’s full of exponential growth.

    35. What do you call a math teacher who teaches addition? A sum-thing genius.

    36. Why was the calculator feeling sad? Because it had no friends to divide by.

    37. Why did the math teacher go to the beach? To catch some rays.

    38. What do you call a math teacher who knows how to party? The Calculus of Fun.

    39. Why can’t a bike stand up by itself? Because it’s two-tired!

    40. What do you call a number that can keep a secret? A cryptonumber!

    41. Why did the math book get a detention? It couldn’t keep its digits to itself.

    42. How can you tell if a math teacher is happy? They’re always positively charged.

    43. What do you call a mathematician who’s always cold? An absolute zero.

    44. Why can’t a pirate do math? He always forgets the Aye on Pi-Day.

    45. What do you get when you cross a math teacher and an elephant? Trunkated numbers.

    46. Why did the math teacher need a ladder? To find the square root of the roof.

    47. What do you call a math teacher who loves puns? A funny-tioning.

    48. What did the right triangle say to the isosceles triangle? "You’re so acute!"

    49. What did the math teacher say when her student got a C+? "You’ll do better next time, don’t be so negative."

    50. Why do math teachers hate fractions? Because they’re always getting mixed up.
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