Math for Puzzled Parents

Math for Puzzled Parents
Author: Nancy Teas-Crain
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2006-07-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1587366630

So many people have suggested to us that they would love to have a book that helped parents review their math skills that we began to consider writing such a book. About the time we decided such a project would be feasible, we saw a piece in a magazine about an actress who had been going to her son's grade-school class to learn the math he was studying. So, we were further motivated to come up with a book we think will help all those varied folks who do homework with their kids. We hope you find the result very helpful!

The Everything Kids' Math Puzzles for Pre-K

The Everything Kids' Math Puzzles for Pre-K
Author: Hannah Whately
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2021-07-13
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1507216122

Packed with 100 fun puzzles and activities for kids ages 3-5. The colorfully illustrated pages feature bright and engaging themes designed to keep your child's attention and to help prepare them for kindergarten.

Old Dogs, New Math: Homework Help for Puzzled Parents

Old Dogs, New Math: Homework Help for Puzzled Parents
Author: Mike Askew
Publisher: The Experiment, LLC
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2010-09-14
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1615191267

“Perfect for parents who want to understand the different methods to do arithmetic their children are learning—and why they are being taught that way.” —Keith Devlin, award-winning Stanford University mathematician “Can you help me with my math homework?” If this question fills you with fear (or even panic), then Old Dogs, New Math is here to help! Gone are the days when elementary school students simply memorized their times tables and struggled through long division. Today, students are expected not just to find the right answer, but also to use the best method—and to explain why it works. If your attempts to help your child are met with “That’s not how the teacher does it,” then it’s time to take the stress out of math homework. Old Dogs, New Math demystifies Common Core math for parents, including: Number lines, place value and negative numbers Long multiplication and division Fractions, percentages and decimals Shapes, symmetry and angles Data analysis, probability and chance Complete with sample questions, examples of children’s errors, and over 25 games and activities, Old Dogs, New Math will not only help you and your child subtract on a number line or multiply on a grid—but also help you discover math all around you, and have fun doing it!

Do the Math!

Do the Math!
Author: Steven Clontz
Publisher: Rockridge Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2021-05-25
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781647398910

Brain-boosting math puzzles for kids ages 8-12 Learning math is a blast with this awesome collection of interactive activities! Whether it's a cunning cryptogram waiting to be decoded or some sudoku that needs to be solved, these clever challenges will teach kids just how awesome and engaging math can be. Over the course of more than 100 math puzzles for kids ages 8-12, young learners will add, subtract, multiply, divide, and logic their way to the solutions for these mathematical marvels. They'll build the core math skills needed to succeed in school and beyond--while having tons of fun! This collection of math puzzles for kids ages 8-12 features: Different puzzle types--Kids will explore math from every angle with patterns, logic puzzles, sudoku, cryptograms, and more. Progressive challenges--Each chapter focuses on one type of puzzle, starting simple and getting harder as they go, helping kids avoid frustration and see how far they've come. Easy-to-follow instructions--Short and simple instructions make sure the only tough part of these math puzzles for kids ages 8-12 is figuring out the answer. Help kids build logical thinking skills with these amazing math puzzles for kids ages 8-12.

Mathematical and Algorithmic Puzzles

Mathematical and Algorithmic Puzzles
Author: Pramod Ganapathi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2024-05-29
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

This book presents serious mathematical and algorithmic puzzles that are mostly counterintuitive. The presented puzzles are simultaneously entertaining, challenging, intriguing, and haunting. This book introduces its readers to counterintuitive mathematical ideas and revolutionary algorithmic insights from a wide variety of topics. The presented solutions that are discovered by many mathematicians and computer scientists are highly counterintuitive and show supreme mathematical beauty. These counterintuitive solutions are intriguing to the degree that they shatter our preconceived notions, shake our long-held belief systems, debunk our fundamental intuitions, and finally rob us of sleep and haunt us for a lifetime. Multiple ways of attacking the same puzzle are presented which teach the application of elegant problem-solving strategies.

Math Puzzles

Math Puzzles
Author: Robert Müller
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2004-08
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781402714610

It’s time for math mania, and those who enjoy mental gymnastics will get a good workout with these puzzles. Begin with short and simple warm-ups: How long would it take 100 storks to catch 100 frogs when five storks need five minutes to catch five frogs? (The answer: Five minutes—it doesn’t matter whether there are one or one hundred storks, the time it takes for each stork to catch a frog is the same.) Move on to visual problems, games with sticks, and other feats of numerical magic.

Mega-Fun Math Games and Puzzles for the Elementary Grades

Mega-Fun Math Games and Puzzles for the Elementary Grades
Author: Michael S. Schiro
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2009-02-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 047034475X

Make developing basic math skills fun and painless With this great collection of over 125 easy-to-use games, puzzles, and activities, teachers and parents can help kids comprehend fundamental math concepts, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, place value, fractions, and more. All games and puzzles use easy-to-find household items such as paper and pencil, playing cards, coins, and dice. The activities also help children develop problem-solving skills, such as testing hypotheses, creating strategies, and organizing information, as well as spatial relations skills, part-to-whole skills, and memory. Michael Schiro, EdD (Chestnut Hill, MA), is an associate professor at the School of Education at Boston College. He is the author of several books on teaching and learning math and is a frequent presenter at local and national math conferences.

Mathematical Puzzles

Mathematical Puzzles
Author: Peter Winkler
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2024-06-21
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1040049516

Research in mathematics is much more than solving puzzles, but most people will agree that solving puzzles is not just fun: it helps focus the mind and increases one's armory of techniques for doing mathematics. Mathematical Puzzles makes this connection explicit by isolating important mathematical methods, then using them to solve puzzles and prove a theorem. This Revised Edition has been thoroughly edited to correct errors and provide clarifications, and includes some totally different solutions, modified puzzles, and one entirely new puzzle. Features A collection of the world’s best mathematical puzzles Each chapter features a technique for solving mathematical puzzles, examples, and finally a genuine theorem of mathematics that features that technique in its proof Puzzles that are entertaining, mystifying, paradoxical, and satisfying; they are not just exercises or contest problems.

Mathematical Puzzles

Mathematical Puzzles
Author: Sam Loyd
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1959
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780486204987

Bizarre imagination, originality, trickiness, and whimsy characterize puzzles of Sam Loyd, America's greatest puzzler. Present selection from fabulously rare Cyclopedia includes the famous 14–15 puzzles, the Horse of a Different Color, and 115 others in various areas of elementary math. 150 period line drawings.

"The Puzzle"

Author: Paul Densmore
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2014-07-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1490742530

How do you know someone loves you? Can you make someone love you? Why is one person chosen to go to war and others not? Are prayers heard? Why are some prayers answered and others not? Does wealth and privilege replace civic responsibility? Can mental injuries be healed? Is my life my own to live? Will the world end in a mushroom cloud? Why were the 1960s unique? The characters in The Puzzle struggle with all of these questions.