r/mathminds • • Sep 10 '26

Mod Post What’s one challenge your child faced while learning math, and how did you solve it?

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You can also share:

  • Math resources that helped
  • Books, websites, or apps you recommend
  • Learning strategies that worked
  • Guides or tips for understanding difficult topics
  • Advice for parents helping their kids with math

The goal of this mega thread: To build a collection of real-world advice that parents can come back to whenever their child gets stuck.

So, share your experiences below. It might help other parents.


r/mathminds • • Sep 07 '26

Mod Post Be Part of Our Community & Help Us Build It πŸ‘₯

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What would you love to see in a math community? 🧩

Drop your suggestions below, puzzles, memes, competitions, learning tips, difficult problems, math debates, or anything else!

πŸ”₯ The most popular ideas will become regular posts, challenges, or events.

🀝 The first 10 contributors will get special community flair!


r/mathminds • • 1h ago

How many integers under 1,000 have digits that strictly decrease from left to right? - Math puzzle

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r/mathminds • • 3h ago

Puzzles Catriona Agg's Geometry Puzzles made interactive

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r/mathminds • • 9h ago

Puzzles Can you reach 44 using all 5 dice?

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Any order is allowed.
Use each die exactly once.
Parentheses are allowed.
Only +, βˆ’, Γ— and Γ· are allowed. No concatenation or exponents.
Exact division only.
No negative numbers.
Not every operation has to be used.

How many solutions can you find?

Please use spoiler tags for solutions:
>!your solution here!<


r/mathminds • • 1d ago

Questions Looking for math help online for my kids (2nd and 5th grade), where do I even start?

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both my kids need math help and I'm honestly overwhelmed by the options, apps, tutoring sites, online classes, youtube channels, there's like 50 of them.
the 2nd grader is behind on basic adding and subtracting. 5th grader is ok but hates it and her grades are slipping. I work full time and i am not getting enough time for each subject, would love one thing that works for both but not sure that exists. where did you start when you were looking for help or were in a similar situation?


r/mathminds • • 1d ago

Puzzles What's the next number in this series?

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r/mathminds • • 1d ago

Puzzles What is X here?

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r/mathminds • • 1d ago

Puzzles Can you crack this?

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r/mathminds • • 1d ago

Puzzles Is it possible?

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r/mathminds • • 2d ago

Memes integral inception

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r/mathminds • • 2d ago

Puzzles Can you crack the password?

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r/mathminds • • 2d ago

Puzzles How to find the missing length?

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r/mathminds • • 2d ago

Where do you get math help for a 5th grader who's fallen behind on fractions?

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One of my daughter is 10, 5th grade, and fractions have just become a wall she can do the steps when I'm sitting right next to her with a little help but on her own she mixes up when to find a common denominator and when to multiply straight across, in the last quiz she got 58.

we've tried khan academy videos and a couple worksheet sites. she watches, nods, and an hour later can't do the homework. i have done her homework a few times and when and honestly I don't think I explain it in newer ways and she is not understanding it when her teacher does too.

education is already getting very expensive considering we have 4 kids and we want to mindfully spend hence what free math help actually worked for your kid, and when did you decide you needed an actual person? how long before things got better?


r/mathminds • • 2d ago

Daily Math β€” Challenge #002 | Calculus

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r/mathminds • • 2d ago

I made a geometry puzzle game | Approximatr

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It's about judging distances, sizes, angles with just your eyes. There are 5 fresh puzzles every day, and you can share your results for others to try and beat. Here are mine for today:

#approximatr Β· Oct 25

🟠βšͺ🟠🎯🎯

Can you get closer?

https://approximatr.com/vs/RQEpZAAAECgDZMAAbDQAwcABRQD5

It's completely free; just play on your browser.


r/mathminds • • 2d ago

Puzzles Take a shot at this probability puzzle

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r/mathminds • • 4d ago

Puzzles Can you solve this?

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r/mathminds • • 4d ago

Questions Any fun ways to practice multiplication facts without using worksheets?

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We're trying to practice multiplication facts, but sitting down and repeatedly doing them gets boring very quickly.

What have you found that keeps kids interested while still giving them enough practice?


r/mathminds • • 4d ago

Puzzles How many triangles?

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r/mathminds • • 4d ago

Puzzles What's the answer?

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r/mathminds • • 5d ago

PENTOMINOSA

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The 8Γ—8 grid below has a 2Γ—2 hole in the center, leaving 60 cells to fill. Your task is to tile the board with the 12 pentominoes (F, I, L, P, N, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z), using each piece exactly once. Pieces may be rotated and reflected.

Rules:

  1. The 12 pentominoes must cover the entire board β€” every cell except the central 2Γ—2 hole belongs to exactly one pentomino.
  2. Each cell of the grid contains a digit from 1 to 5.
  3. Each pentomino must cover exactly five cells whose digits are all different β€” in other words, every piece must cover the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, one of each.

In short: find a tiling of the board in which each pentomino covers a region containing all five digits.The NOTES grid at the bottom is meant for tracking the pieces: you can cross out each pentomino there once you're certain of its position.

Find the tiling. Solution is unique.

https://tafol.pythonanywhere.com/


r/mathminds • • 6d ago

Flowers also follow Fibonacci sequences

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r/mathminds • • 6d ago

Puzzles Any shortcut to find the x value

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r/mathminds • • 6d ago

Puzzles For Martin Gardner's birthday: five targets on one wheel, and every number has a story

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