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Author : Ivan Moscovich
Publisher : Workman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0761118268
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (611 download)
Download or read book 1,000 Playthinks written by Ivan Moscovich and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of visual challenges, riddles, and puzzles.
Author : Ivan Moscovich
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780761134664
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book The Big Book of Brain Games written by Ivan Moscovich and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the original 1000 PlayThinks,Will Shortz of The New York Times said it best: “The most wide-ranging, visually appealing, entertaining, gigantic collection of brainteasers since Sam Loyd’s Cyclopedia of Puzzles almost a century ago.” Inside The Big Book of Brain Games, you will find an obsessive collection of 1,000 challenges, puzzles, riddles, illusions—originals as well as must-do classics—it’s like salted peanuts for the brain. With jampacked pages and a full-color illustration for each entry, the book, opened anywhere, is a call to action. (And it’s guaranteed to make you smarter.) Twelve basic categories include Geometry, Patterns, Numbers, Logic and Probability, and Perception. An easy-to-read key at the top of each game ranks its difficulty on a scale of 1 to 10, while indices in the back cross-reference the puzzles. (You’ll find the answers back there, too.)
Author : Tim Erickson
Publisher : eeps media
ISBN 13 : 0964849607
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (648 download)
Download or read book United We Solve written by Tim Erickson and published by eeps media. This book was released on 1996 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Milo Beckman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524745561
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Math Without Numbers written by Milo Beckman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated tour of the structures and patterns we call "math" The only numbers in this book are the page numbers. Math Without Numbers is a vivid, conversational, and wholly original guide to the three main branches of abstract math—topology, analysis, and algebra—which turn out to be surprisingly easy to grasp. This book upends the conventional approach to math, inviting you to think creatively about shape and dimension, the infinite and infinitesimal, symmetries, proofs, and how these concepts all fit together. What awaits readers is a freewheeling tour of the inimitable joys and unsolved mysteries of this curiously powerful subject. Like the classic math allegory Flatland, first published over a century ago, or Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach forty years ago, there has never been a math book quite like Math Without Numbers. So many popularizations of math have dwelt on numbers like pi or zero or infinity. This book goes well beyond to questions such as: How many shapes are there? Is anything bigger than infinity? And is math even true? Milo Beckman shows why math is mostly just pattern recognition and how it keeps on surprising us with unexpected, useful connections to the real world. The ambitions of this book take a special kind of author. An inventive, original thinker pursuing his calling with jubilant passion. A prodigy. Milo Beckman completed the graduate-level course sequence in mathematics at age sixteen, when he was a sophomore at Harvard; while writing this book, he was studying the philosophical foundations of physics at Columbia under Brian Greene, among others.
Author : Ivan Moscovich
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402716669
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (166 download)
Download or read book The Hinged Square & Other Puzzles written by Ivan Moscovich and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorful square, dissected into four parts, with hinges marked in black. If you leave the blue piece fixed and swing the others around their hinges, a new shape will emerge. Can you guess just by looking what it will be? This is just one of the tricky geometrical gems that will make a puzzler’s mind work overtime. Try drawing a set of variously shaped polygons using only a compass and a ruler (no measuring allowed!), figuring out which of two sculptures is bigger (logic alone won’t give you the answer), and lots more.
Author : Detective Shadow
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780806944883
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (448 download)
Download or read book Tricky Mindtrap Puzzles written by Detective Shadow and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of puzzles designed to challenge the way people think and see, and includes an answer key.
Author : Ben Orlin
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN 13 : 0762499850
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Math Games with Bad Drawings written by Ben Orlin and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author and worst-drawing artist Ben Orlin expands his oeuvre with this interactive collection of mathematical games. With 70-plus games, each taking a minute to learn and a lifetime to master, this treasure trove will delight, educate, and entertain. From beloved math popularizer Ben Orlin comes a masterfully compiled collection of dozens of playable mathematical games.This ultimate game chest draws on mathematical curios, childhood classics, and soon-to-be classics, each hand-chosen to be (1) fun, (2) thought-provoking, and (3) easy to play. With just paper, pens, and the occasional handful of coins, you and a partner can enjoy hours of fun—and hours of challenge. Orlin’s sly humor, expansive knowledge, and so-bad-they’re-good drawings show us how simple rules summon our best thinking. Games include: Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe Sprouts Battleship Quantum Go Fish Dots and Boxes Black Hole Order and Chaos Sequencium Paper Boxing Prophecies Arpeggios Banker Francoprussian Labyrinth Cats and Dogs And many more.
Author : Joshua Glenn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632860465
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)
Download or read book UNBORED Games written by Joshua Glenn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNBORED Games has all the smarts, creativity, and DIY spirit of the original UNBORED (“It's a book! It's a guide! It's a way of life!” -Los Angeles Magazine), but with a laser-like focus on the activities we do for pure fun: to while away a rainy day, to test our skills and stretch our imaginations-games. There are more than seventy games here, 50 of them all new, plus many more recommendations, and they cover the full gambit, from old-fashioned favorites to today's high-tech games. The book offers a gold mine of creative, constructive fun: intricate clapping games, bike rodeo, Google Earth challenges, croquet golf, capture the flag, and the best ever apps to play with Grandma, to name only a handful. Gaming is a whole culture for kids to explore, and the book will be complete with gaming history and interviews with awesome game designers. The lessons here: all games can be self-customized, or hacked. You can even make up your own games. Some could even change the world. The original UNBORED has taken its place as a much beloved, distinctly contemporary family brand. UNBORED Games extends the franchise -- also including UNBORED Adventure -- in a new handy flexibound format, illustrated in full color throughout. This is a whole shelf of serious fun the whole family can enjoy indoors, outdoors, online and offline.
Author : Yan Kow Cheong
Publisher : MathPlus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9810876556
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Christmaths—A Creative Problem Solving Math Book written by Yan Kow Cheong and published by MathPlus Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A recreational-and-problem-solving math book, CHRISTmaths: A Creative Problem Solving Math Book attempts to bring together the joy (or spirit) of Christmas and the spirit (or joy) of mathematics. Looking at topics linking Mathematics and Christmas—what the queen of the sciences and the king of the public holidays have in common—CHRISTmaths will not only appeal to a Christmas or Christian audience, but also to any problem solvers who enjoy mathematics recreationally. CHRISTmaths should appeal to • creative problem solvers who are bored by drill-and-kill math titles, and who desire to get an intellectual kick out of solving non-routine questions; • mathletes who long for some creative mathematical problem solving to tickle their mathematical bones. CHRISTmaths hopes to give readers the opportunity to experience the Ah, Aha! and Ha Ha of Mathematics. Contents Preface Biodata of 25 B.C. and A.D. Are You Christmas-Literate? The 12 Puzzles of Christmas Santa’s Itinerary 12 Daffynitions of CHRISTMAS A CHRISTMAS Spell Guesstimation on Christmas Day 7 Beautiful Xmas Series 12 Challenges @ Christmastime A Mathematician’s Musings on Xmas Day Mathematical Graphiti I Xmas Philamath 12 Myths about Christ and Christmas Mathematical Graphiti II Mathematical Graphiti III 25 No-Frills Christmas Crackers Did You Know…. The Mathematics of Christmas 25 Mathematical Quickies & Trickies Was Pythagoras a pre-Christian Christian? A Formula for Christmas Day Q&A about Christmas Clausophobia and the Rest Mathematical Graphiti III Mathematical Graphiti IV Number of Zeros in 1 × 2 × 3 ×⋯× 24 × 25 25 Math Things You Can Do on Christmas 1 × 2 × 3 ×⋯× (n − 1) × n ends in 25 zeros Taking Up Your Cross Mathematicians Christened Number of Digits in 2525 Christmas Tangrams CHRISTMAS By Numbers What day Is Christmas in 2025? The Mathematical Fathers The Answer Is Not 25 Christmas Countdown A Christmas Potpourri CHRISTMAS Alphametics Mathematical Graphiti IV Celebrate Father Christmas Week 25 Illegal Things You May Want to Do on Xmas The Twelve Days of Christmas A Green Christmas Answers/Hints/Solutions Bibliography & References Type of e-book: Nonfiction, problem solving, recreational, Singapore math, trick questions Audiences: Suitable for Grades 5-10
Author : Thomas O'Brien
Publisher : NSTA Press
ISBN 13 : 1936137496
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (361 download)
Download or read book More Brain-powered Science written by Thomas O'Brien and published by NSTA Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Thomas OOCOBrien uses 20 inquiry-oriented discrepant eventsOCohands-on explorations or demonstrations in which the outcomes are not what students expectOCoto challenge studentsOCO preconceived ideas and urge them to critically examine the empirical evidence, draw logical inferences, and skeptically review their initial explanations with their peers. ItOCOs the perfect dual-purpose activity book for science teachers who aim to motivate their students while expanding their own scientific understanding."
Author : Carlo Mariconda
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319030388
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Discrete Calculus written by Carlo Mariconda and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to combinatorics, finite calculus, formal series, recurrences, and approximations of sums. Readers will find not only coverage of the basic elements of the subjects but also deep insights into a range of less common topics rarely considered within a single book, such as counting with occupancy constraints, a clear distinction between algebraic and analytical properties of formal power series, an introduction to discrete dynamical systems with a thorough description of Sarkovskii’s theorem, symbolic calculus, and a complete description of the Euler-Maclaurin formulas and their applications. Although several books touch on one or more of these aspects, precious few cover all of them. The authors, both pure mathematicians, have attempted to develop methods that will allow the student to formulate a given problem in a precise mathematical framework. The aim is to equip readers with a sound strategy for classifying and solving problems by pursuing a mathematically rigorous yet user-friendly approach. This is particularly useful in combinatorics, a field where, all too often, exercises are solved by means of ad hoc tricks. The book contains more than 400 examples and about 300 problems, and the reader will be able to find the proof of every result. To further assist students and teachers, important matters and comments are highlighted, and parts that can be omitted, at least during a first and perhaps second reading, are identified.
Author : Beatrice Tinarelli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788854415553
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Big Book of Brain Games written by Beatrice Tinarelli and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Akram Najjar
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
ISBN 13 : 1642372137
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)
Download or read book The Hidden Paw's Third 50 Puzzles written by Akram Najjar and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third puzzle eBook contains a collection of 50 puzzles or riddles with their solutions. These brain teasers require insight to solve but not brute force. Some of them rely on common sense. Others are AHA or GOTCHA puzzles that Martin Gardner loved. There are some that rely on lateral thinking while others require convoluted logic to solve. Of interest are some uncommon puzzles such as cross numbers and puzzles extracted from real life situations. When selecting the puzzles, two attempts were made: 1) Not to include commonly available puzzles 2) Not to include puzzles that require general knowledge or expertise in specific domains (such as math or algebra). The intended age bracket is from early teens onwards.
Author : Melissa Stewart
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1608702030
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (87 download)
Download or read book You've Got Nerve! written by Melissa Stewart and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides comprehensive information on the role the brain and nerves play in the body science of humans and animals.
Author : Russell Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136675507
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Creativity in the Primary Curriculum written by Russell Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you striving to establish a more creative and imaginative classroom? Are you interested in: the generosity of creativity; creative conjecture; being an advocate for creativity; welcoming the unexpected, the unpredictable and the unconventional; taking risks; learning which leads to new or original thinking which is of value? If so, this completely updated new edition of a classic text will show you how to achieve these ideals. The book is written in a clear and practical way by leading researchers and practitioners, offering help and advice on the planning and implementation of effective creative teaching and learning, and providing examples of best practice through a rigorous theoretical rationale. A hallmark of the book is its exploration of creativity through curriculum subjects. It builds on this in its first and last chapters by addressing key cross-curricular themes that thread their way throughout the book. Throughout there is an emphasis on critical and reflective practice. New to this edition are: three entirely new chapters on drama, music and geography; an update of the introduction to account for advances in creativity research, policy and practice; a new final chapter identifying cross-curricular themes; greater attention to international dimensions and examples. In this second edition the authors are drawn from six universities which between them produce some of the best education research internationally, and some of the best teacher education. The authors also come from leading national and international organisations such as the National Gallery in London and the Geographical Association. Creaivity for the Primary Curriculum is a core text for both training and practicing Primary teachers who wish to maintain high standards when approaching their teaching.
Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487531036
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book The Quest for Meaning written by Marcel Danesi and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dating back to antiquity, semiotics is both a "technique" and a "science" that aims to understand the nature of meaning. An academic discipline in its own right, semiotics uses signs, such as words and symbols, to think, communicate, reflect, transmit, and preserve knowledge. Since the initial publication of The Quest for Meaning in 2007, the world has changed dramatically with the advent of online culture, new technologies, and new ways of making signs and symbols. Updated to reflect these many changes, the second edition includes a comprehensive chapter on the use of semiotics in the Internet age. Written in a student-friendly style, featuring examples from everyday life, the book explains what semiotics is all about and why it is so important for gaining insights into our elusive and mysterious human nature.
Author : Barry Cipra
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439864799
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Tribute to a Mathemagician written by Barry Cipra and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-11-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tradition of a publication based on the Gathering for Gardner continues with this new carefully selected and edited collection in which Martin Gardner and friends inspire and entertain. The contributors to this volume---virtually a list of Who's Who in the World of Puzzles---trace their inspiration to Martin Gardner's puzzle column in Scientifi
