Live Breaking News & Updates on Yossi Elran

Sometime around junior high, this Weizmann science writer stumbled upon Mathematical Games, the late Martin Gardner's monthly math puzzle at the back of my mom's Scientific American, and I became a devotee. The best ones, of course, were those that required a little sideways thinking, and these yielded the pleasure of that "Aha" moment when the answer became clear. (For more on the neurobiology of the Aha moment, look at our site.) ....

United States , New Jersey , South Korea , University College , New South Wales , Irene Eizen , Martin Gardner , Yossi Elran , Davidson Institute Of Science Education , Temple University College Of Education , Weizmann Institute , Davidson Institute , Mathematical Games , Scientific American , Science Education , Temple University College , Northern New ,