Puzzles, Mazes and Numbers
Published on 27. July 1995
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-0-521-46500-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book consists of most of the material from How puzzling, How amazing and How many? by the same authors. It contains fascinating information about numbers and mazes, both historical and modern, with a large number of puzzles, problems and investigational activities. There are solutions and hints to some of the problems at the end of the book.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Interest Age: From 11 to 16 years
Dimensions
Height: 288 mm
Width: 214 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
646 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-46500-7 (9780521465007)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
One, two and many; Papyrus puzzle; Theseus and the minotaur; Church mazes; Crossing the river; Hindu number system; Curiouser and curiouser; Sam Loyd; Henry Ernest Dudeney; Puzzling reality; Moving; Really big numbers; Base two; Problems of Babylon; Puzzling paths; Chessboard pieces; Problem pieces; Weights and measures; Pythagorean triples and triangles; Counting on; Networks; Letters for Greeks; The Chinese triangle; Inside or outside; Ways with numbers; Paradoxes; Diophantine problems; Diophantine day; A page of pi; Inventing mazes; Arabian mathematics; How many ways?; Strings and knots; The mathematical mansion; Why do they work?; Number shapes; Celtic knots; Colourful puzzles; Cryptarithms; Chinese puzzle; Paths and points; Further ways ; Puzzle mazes; Calculate it!; Three in a row; Island routes; Curious squares; Number patterns; Miz mazes; The Maya; Liars, hats and logic; Puzzle your way in; Hedge mazes; Terces pot; Problems with primes; Adventure maze; Sets and spots; Puzzling cubes; On average; Maze games; More puzzling mazes; The path to infinity; Solutions and hints; A page of numbers