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4) Go figure!
Author
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of math activities that include brainteasers, magic tricks, and mind-reading games.
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Praised for its "exceptionally good value" by the Journal of Recreational Mathematics, this book offers fun-filled insights into many fields of mathematics. The brainteasers include original puzzles as well as new approaches to classic conundrums. A vast assortment of challenges features domino puzzles, the game of noughts and crosses, games of encirclement, sliding movement puzzles, subtraction games, puzzles in mechanics, games with piles of matches,...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This is, quite simply, the best and most popular puzzle book ever published in the Soviet Union. Since its first appearance in 1956 there have been eight editions as well as translations from the original Russian into Ukrainian, Estonian, Lettish, and Lithuanian. Almost a million copies of the Russian version alone have been sold. Part of the reason for the book's success is its marvelously varied assortment of brainteasers ranging from simple "catch"...
Author
Publisher
Tarquin Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Problems are presented simply and colorfully, and solutions are well expounded and clear. The reader will enjoy the challenge, and the "aha" moment of understanding any solution that they did not come to themselves. Great fun--and enlightening, too!
Author
Publisher
Tarquin Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This is an intriguing and original puzzle book where unknown numbers have to be identified by a series of cryptic clues. Logical thinking and systematic detective work is required and these puzzles offer a fine way to reinforce the meaning of mathematical words and to investigate and appreciate the ever fascinating properties of numbers."--
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
For two decades, self-taught mathematician Henry E. Dudeney wrote a puzzle page, "Perplexities," for The Strand Magazine. Martin Gardner, longtime editor of Scientific American 's mathematical games column, hailed Dudeney as "England's greatest maker of puzzles," unsurpassed in the quantity and quality of his inventions. This compilation of Dudeney's long-inaccessible challenges attests to the puzzle-maker's gift for creating witty and compelling...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
For decades, professionals in applied mathematics and mathematical puzzle fans from all over the world supplied provocative problems to the puzzle columns of the Graham Dial. Upon the appearance of an interesting problem, readers wrote in to the Dial suggesting new approaches to the solution, some greatly simplifying the problem and others broadening its scope. This collection presents 52 of the finest problems, all featuring the "surprise attack"...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Noted mathematician T. H. O'Beirne leads readers through a delightful maze of problems and solutions that are as artfully formed as any great poem or melody. Most require little mathematical knowledge, just careful logic and a playful imagination. Each chapter presents a series of thematically related brainteasers: difficult journeys featuring unlikely passengers and inadequate transport; geometric paradoxes; pouring liquid puzzles; cube and color...
Author
Publisher
Tarquin Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This book is a collection of number puzzles on which to test your mind and ingenuity. It is also an interesting and thorough introduction to the methods and techniques which can be used to solve them. All the puzzles are in the form of a sequence of numbers with missing terms. For each of them there is an underlying rule or hidden connection between the numbers and you have to spot what it could be. When you find the rule, it will explain how the...
Publisher
Printers Row
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The math book for anyone who thinks they hate math, full of easy, entertaining and practical tricks for mentally solving problems in seconds. No matter how much you might try to avoid numbers, we all use math every day to calculate a tip, figure out an interest rate, or estimate the cost of the groceries in your cart. But the good news is, math can be easy -- and even fun -- if you know how to do it all in your head. With these simple and downright...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Everything in mathematics has many meanings every diagram and every figure, every sum and every equation can be seen" in different ways, just as every sentence in English or in algebra can be variously read and interpreted. This book explores mathematical topics by pointing out remarkable similarities and taking a fresh look at familiar items. Loaded with thought-provoking facts and surprises, it explores the relationships between mathematics and...
18) Bedtime math
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The noted expert and longtime author of Scientific American's Mathematical Games column selects 70 of his favorite "short" puzzles. Enthusiasts can challenge their skills with such mind-bogglers as The Returning Explorer, The Mutilated Chessboard, Scrambled Box Tops, Bronx vs. Brooklyn, and dozens more involving logic and basic math. Complete solutions included.
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Two friends wish to meet for breakfast twice a month throughout the year. In how many ways can they choose those two days so that they never meet on consecutive days? You want to measure 30 seconds and you have two pieces of string, each of which burns for 40 seconds. How can you accomplish this without bending, folding, or cutting the strings? A positive whole number is divisible by 3 and also by 5. When the number is divided by 7, the remainder...
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