The Complete Book of Fun Maths
250 Confidence-boosting Tricks, Tests and Puzzles
1st Edition
Published on 25. September 2009
184 pages
978-1-907312-08-3 (ISBN)
Description
The idea of this book is to help build confidence with maths via aseries of tests and puzzles. After a gentle 'warm-up'section, the puzzles and tests get progressively more challengingover the course of the book. There is a hints section forreaders who get stuck, as well as a complete set of answers forevery test at the back of the book.
After the 'warm-up' section, there are puzzles and tests on'lateral thinking', 'fun with numbers', 'logic puzzles','geometrical puzzles' and 'difficult puzzles'. Readers will soonbecome familiar and comfortable with a range of tricks and tests,from magic number squares to Fibonacci numbers.
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Philip Carter | Ken Russell
The Complete Book of Fun Maths
250 Confidence-boosting Tricks, Tests and Puzzles
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Content
Introduction.
Section 1: Puzzles, tricks and tests.
Chapter 1: The work out.
Chapter 2: Think laterally.
Chapter 3: Test your numerical IQ.
Chapter 4: Funumeration.
Chapter 5: Think logically.
Chapter 6: The logic of gambling and probability.
Chapter 7: Geometrical puzzles.
Chapter 8: Complexities and curiosities.
Section 2: Hints, answers and explanations.
Hints.
Answers and explanations.
Section 3: Glossary and data.
Glossary.
Data.
Section 4: Appendices.
Appendix 1: Fibonacci and nature's use of space.
Appendix 2: Pi.
Appendix 3: Topology and the Mobius strip.
