How Many?
Published on 29. June 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
48 pages
978-0-521-45953-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book follows the style of How puzzling and How amazing by the same authors. It combines a brief history of some aspects of the development of numbers with puzzles, problems and investigations based on number manipulation and number patterns.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Interest Age: From 11 to 16 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 211 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
178 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-45953-2 (9780521459532)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
One, two and many; Hindu number system; Pythagorean triples and triangles; Letters for numbers; Really big numbers; Counting on; A number of puzzles; Cryptarithms; The Chinese Triangle; Why do they work?; How many ways; Arabian mathematics; Number shapes; A page of p; Further ways; Base two; Chain letters; Number patterns; On average; The Maya; Problems with primes; The path to infinity; A few solutions; A page of numbers