Puzzling Adventures: Tales of Strategy, Logic, and Mathematical Skill

Puzzling Adventures: Tales of Strategy, Logic, and Mathematical Skill
Author: Dennis E. Shasha
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2005-01-17
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0393349993

Hours of recreational reckoning. Collected and enhanced from Dennis Shasha's popular Scientific American column, here are thirty-six of the most innovative and emotive mathematical puzzles ever to appear in its pages. Edgy, challenging and representing the ultimate in recreational mathematical games, Puzzling Adventures dares the reader to work out the logic underlying venture fund investments, escape a Minotaur, catch a polar bear, play power politics, work out if a witness is lying, spy on contraband traders and verify DNA. An encrypted set of stories and commentary float above the puzzles. They need decrypting to discover their hints. The hints lead to a surpriseā€”if the reader can work them out.

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Total Pages: 1426
Release: 2006
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81 Fresh & Fun Critical-thinking Activities

81 Fresh & Fun Critical-thinking Activities
Author: Laurie Rozakis
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780590375269

Help children of all learning styles and strengths improve their critical thinking skills with these creative, cross-curricular activities. Each engaging activity focuses on skills such as recognizing and recalling, evaluating, and analyzing.

Puzzles To Puzzle You

Puzzles To Puzzle You
Author: Shakuntala Devi
Publisher: Orient Paperbacks
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2005-03
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9788122200140

Discover the adventure and excitement of mathematical puzzles. Match your wits with the human computer. Sharpen your intellect, delight your friends and enjoy hours of purposeful entertainment. Mathematics is not always hard, mind-boggling stuff. It can also be simple, delightful and interesting. Many famous mathematicians are known to be devoted to peg jumping puzzles. It is perhaps this kind of play that leads to scientific discoveries. The celebrity author, Shakuntala Devi, is regarded as 'authentic heroine of the twentieth century'. She calculates faster than the fastest computer, is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records and continues to amaze audiences around the world with her feats of calculation.

Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles

Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles
Author: Puzzle Baron
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-08-03
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1615640320

Get your brain working with 200 grid-based logic puzzles from the Puzzle Baron! Filled with complex and fun brain teasers that range in difficulty, this book will put your mind into overdrive with hours of brain-challenging fun. Using the given backstory and list of clues, readers use pure logic to deduce the correct answer for each fiendishly tricky puzzle in Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles. Bring out your competitive side and check your stats against the average completion time, the record completion time, and the percentage of people who finish the puzzle. Check your work against the answer key and see how logical you really are! Perfect for adults or children, Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles is the ultimate challenge for those who love piecing clues and facts together. The brain is a wonderful thing to tease!