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A range of mathematical puzzles ranging from tangrams to flexagons.
A stimulating collection of puzzles in the Martin Gardner tradition. There is an entertaining variety of puzzles to challenge you, amuse you, and exercise a wide range of your mathematical skills. Many are based on shapes or patterns in two and three dimensions, and the detailed solutions explain exactly how best...
Whether you are intrigued, embarrassed, or just plain scared by the complexities of mathematics, this is a book which will both delight and...
Here in this new edition are many more of the fascinating mathematical puzzles and concepts which made the first volume of Puzzles and Pastimes such a popular success. You will find new material on number, time, and line and area puzzles, as well as a highly challenging series from the field of combinatorial...
Mathematical puzzles and amusements to intrigue and delight you. There are puzzles with numbers and number bases, simple logical problems, a chapter on patterns and another on topology (the topics of the newer mathematics are well represented). there are are also plenty of puzzles in more traditional areas of...
This book contains many of the puzzles created by Sam Loyd (1841-1911), with an added analytical table of contents that groups the puzzles according to the type of mathematics necessary to solve them.
Pack of photocopiable puzzle cards, some numerical and some spatial.
The problems in this book, which are grouped together into linked sequences, will help students to develop the mental muscles they need to think through `hard' mathematical problems in an enjoyable, and challenging way.
Mathematical reasoning: activities for developing thinking skills
This resource from SMILE Mathematics contains 27 activities with full teacher's notes and answers.
The activities cover:
Integers, powers and roots: Some sums, Half time scores, Tower of Hanoi
Written methods: Largest product
Equations, formulae...