BEAVERTON, Ore. (KOIN) — Most kids can’t wait for the final bell of the school day. But at Aloha Huber Park Elementary in Beaverton, some students stay after school to learn about algorithms — through ...

The Rubik’s Cube was created 50 years ago by Hungarian inventor Ernő Rubik. Over 500 million of them have been sold. Needless to say, the 3D puzzle has captured the imagination of countless students ...

Although we think of the Rubik’s Cube as an ’80s phenomenon, the iconic brain teaser toy first came out in 1974. This means that 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of Rubik’s Cube in our lives. The toy, ...

Walking through a toy store, one of the most recognizable items you’ll see is the iconic cube with six colored sides: the Rubik’s Cube. Chances are you’ve played with one, received it as a gift, or ...

The naysayers said the maddening multicolored cube that Erno Rubik invented 50 years ago would not survive the 1980s. Yet millennials and Generation Z are as nuts about Rubik's Cube as their parents ...

If you’ve ever dabbled with a Rubik’s Cube, you know it isn’t the easiest puzzle to crack. Despite the challenging nature of the game, it’s endured longer than most other toys of its generation—think ...

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It was fair and square. A specially designed Mistubuishi robot in Japan set a remarkable Guinness World Record for solving a Rubik’s Cube in a split second. The champion TOKUI Fast Accurate ...

The last time a human set the world record for solving a Rubik’s Cube, it was Max Park, at 3.13 seconds for a standard 3×3×3 cube, set in June 2023. It is going to be very difficult for any human to ...

Courtney Gibbons is affiliated with the Association for Women in Mathematics and the American Mathematical Society. You might remember learning about the quadratic formula to figure out the solutions ...