Chock full of entertaining mathematical ideas, puzzles, tricks, and word problems, this book proves that everyone can be a math whiz. "Students can't help but grow in mathematical skills and positive attitudes."--School Library Journal.

It is an interesting, varied, not-your-run-of-the-mill activity book, with cute illustrations. A caveat is a large scatter of difficulty among activities, which created frustration when activities could not be figured out (it would've been better to mark activities with level of difficulty so children knew when they were approaching the most difficult ones), and some unusual and rather idiosyncratic answers that were difficult even for adults to come up with or explain. Overall, good fun.

Famous German artist and designer offers a fabulous collection of convoluted constructions designed to dazzle the most practiced puzzlist. Includes op art effects, Escher-like illusions, various architectural fabrications, three-dimensional constructs accompanied by solutions for the frustrated beginner and the baffled connoisseur. 50 mazes (49 solutions). Contents. Captions.

 

Word Puzzles & Games

Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing Company 2002 | 64 Pages | ISBN: 0887247237 | PDF | 7 MB

njoy building basic skills with Home Workbooks! Filled with age-appropriate activities, puzzles, and games, this teacher-approved book is perfect for extra practice at home or school and during travel

Raymond Smullyan is a unique set of personalities that includes a philosopher, logician, mathematician, musician, magician,humorist, writer, and maker of marvelous puzzles. Because he is a skillful writer and humorist, he enjoys presenting his puzzles in narrative forms that often parody great works of popular fiction.

Eighty-four word games: crossword puzzles, match-the-name-with-the-animals, fill-in-the-blanks, search-a-word and other intriguing activities that introduce youngsters to animals of land, sea and air. Excellent tool for strengthening cognitive and verbal skills. Illustrations of 170 animals. Solutions.

The entire collection of Martin Gardner's Scientific American columns on one searchable CD Martin Gardner’s “Mathematical Games” column ran in Scientific American from 1956 to 1986. In these columns Gardner introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the delights of mathematics and of puzzles and problem solving. His column broke such stories as Rivest, Shamir and Adelman on public-key cryptography