The Everything Kids' Math Puzzles Book

The Everything Kids' Math Puzzles Book
Author: Meg Clemens
Publisher: Everything
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-06-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781580627733

Stump your friends and family with this fun, challenging math puzzle book! Who knew that math could be so cool? Crammed with games, puzzles, and trivia, The Everything Kids’ Math Puzzles Book puts the fun back into playing with numbers! If you have any fear of math—or are just tired of sitting in a classroom—The Everything Kids’ Math Puzzles Book provides hours of entertainment. You’ll get so caught up in the activities, you won’t even know you’re learning! Inside, you’ll be able to: -Decode hidden messages using Roman numerals -Connect the dots using simple addition and subtraction -Learn to create magic number squares -Use division to answer musical riddles -Match the profession to numerical license plates

Challenging Math Problems

Challenging Math Problems
Author: Terry Stickels
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2015-10-21
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0486795535

This best-of compilation features 101 of the most entertaining and challenging math puzzles ever published. No advanced knowledge of mathematics is necessary, just solid thinking and puzzle-solving skills. Includes complete solutions.

My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles

My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles
Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2013-04-10
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0486320324

The noted expert selects 70 of his favorite "short" puzzles, including such mind-bogglers as The Returning Explorer, The Mutilated Chessboard, Scrambled Box Tops, and dozens more involving logic and basic math. Solutions included.

Exploring Math Through Puzzles

Exploring Math Through Puzzles
Author: Wei Zhang
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2011-09-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781937547004

Exploring Math Through Puzzles includes step-by-step instructions for making over 50 puzzles out of string, beads, wire and common household items. Related mathematical activities are included along with tips for parents and teachers.

Math Bafflers Book 2

Math Bafflers Book 2
Author: Marilynn L. Rapp Buxton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-06
Genre: Logic puzzles
ISBN: 9781593637125

Math Bafflers requires students to use creativity, critical thinking, and logical reasoning to perform a variety of operations and practice skills that align with state and national math standards. The book covers real-life situations requiring math skills, such as distance, liquid measures, money, time, weight, sequencing, comparison, age, area, and percentages, along with operations such as fractions, exponents, algebra, place value, and number lines. Students will make hypotheses, organize information, draw conclusions, and use syllogistic thinking. Teachers can feel confident that they are providing challenges and reinforcing important skills in a format that students enjoy! Math Bafflers builds essential critical thinking, analysis, and problem-solving skills; develops logical thinking in a fun format; uses relevant, real-life mathematical situations; and provides opportunities for differentiation. Grades 6-8

Math Practice Puzzles

Math Practice Puzzles
Author: Bob Olenych
Publisher: Scholastic Professional Books
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2002-02-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439288507

The Gödelian Puzzle Book

The Gödelian Puzzle Book
Author: Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2013-08-21
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0486315770

These logic puzzles provide entertaining variations on Gödel's incompleteness theorems, offering ingenious challenges related to infinity, truth and provability, undecidability, and other concepts. No background in formal logic necessary.

Math Starters for Every Day of the School Year

Math Starters for Every Day of the School Year
Author: Karen D. Mancuso
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 18
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439317535

A daily-problem format makes it easy to coach students quickly on the math skills they need for standardized tests. Includes reproducibles.

Cut the Knot

Cut the Knot
Author: Alexander Bogomolny
Publisher: Wolfram Media
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2020-11-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781579550417

He who untied the Gordian knot would rule all of Asia So goes the legend of the tricky knot of Gordius, king of Phrygia.Many had tried; many had failed, but Alexander the Great simplycut the knot with his sword. He went on to conquer most of Asia, eventually reaching as far east as Northern India. Cut the Knot is a book of probability riddles curated to challenge the mind andexpand mathematical and logical thinking skills. First housed on cut-the-knot.org, these puzzles and their solutions represent the efforts of great minds around theworld. Follow along as Alexander Bogomolny presents these selected riddles bytopical progression. Try them for yourself before reading their solutions. Just like itwas for Alexander the Great, the non-trivial, unexpected solution might be exactlythe one you need.

Math Practice Puzzles

Math Practice Puzzles
Author: Bob Olenych
Publisher: Scholastic Professional Books
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2001-08-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439271677

Topics covered are: multiplication and division facts, multiplication with 1, 2, and 3 digits, divisibility rules, long division, word problems with multiplication and division.