Sophisticated mathematics is accessible to all. This book proves it! This is a collection of intriguing mathematical problems and activities linked by common themes that all involve working with objects from our everyday experience. Learn about the mathematics of a bagel, a checkerboard and a pile of laundry for example. Discover for yourself that wheels need not be round, that braids need not have free ends, that it's always best to turn around twice - and more! Mathematics is all around us, we all do mathematics every day. The activities contained in this book are immediate, catchy and fun, but upon investigation, begin to unfold into surprising layers of depth and new perspectives. The necessary mathematics, in increasing levels of difficulty, is explained fully along the way. Mathematics educators will find this an invaluable resource of fresh and innovative approaches to topics in mathematics.
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A book with a bountty of activities that you could use in your classroom, or as part of mathematics club. -- Herbert Kasube, MAA Online
Get the book, use it, and help students have fun doing mathematics. -- CHOICE Magazine
Get the book, use it, and help students have fun doing mathematics. -- CHOICE Magazine
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This is a collection of intriguing mathematical problems and activities, linked by common themes that all involve objects from our everyday experience. The necessary mathematics is explained fully along the way. Mathematics educators will find this an invaluable resource of fresh and innovative approaches to topics in mathematics.
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The best collection of problems of maximum interest,
By Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)
This review is from: Solve This: Math Activities for Students and Clubs (Classroom Resource Materials) (Paperback)
Great problems implies excited students which implies great mathematicians. In this book, you will find some of the most interesting, entertaining problems available for presentation to undergraduates. Calling them hands-on is to understate as some involve disrobing strategies to explain the physical rotation of body parts and others the proper cutting of paper into mathematical structures. I found some of the problems so interesting that I stopped reading to verify the results. This book receives my highest recommendation and there is no doubt that if you use it, the students will respond often with the phrase, cool problem. It is the poster book for mathematics as a fun activity....
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This is a wonderful book for students and teachers alike. Sophisticated mathematics is made accessible to everyone. Written with humor, thoughtfulness and a real sense of where people have difficulties and how to get around them, Tanton puts his finger on the pleasures and promises of each problem. Not to be missed, no matter how experienced or inexperienced you are.
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skew tetrominoes, linked unlinked rings, one stable edge, bicycle travelled, two linked rings, bad chocolate, cubical lattice, shadow journey, upright cups, distinct denominations, coloring scheme, classic puzzle, correct door, black cells, half twists, labelling scheme, stable faces Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Checkerboard Tiling, Further Answer, Martin Gardner, Party Trick, Hard Challenge, Lopsided Charlie, Road Building, Hall's Marriage Theorem, Map Mechanics, Mary's College of Maryland, Angela Dellano, Chessboard Maneuvers, Even Further, Further Thoughts, Get Knotted, John Dockstader, Josh Davis, Monty Hall, Some Solutions, Alex Alapatt, Another Diabolical, Automata Antics, Avoiding the Bad Bits, Bagel Math, Bubble Trouble New!
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skew tetrominoes, linked unlinked rings, one stable edge, bicycle travelled, two linked rings, bad chocolate, cubical lattice, shadow journey, upright cups, distinct denominations, coloring scheme, classic puzzle, correct door, black cells, half twists, labelling scheme, stable faces Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Checkerboard Tiling, Further Answer, Martin Gardner, Party Trick, Hard Challenge, Lopsided Charlie, Road Building, Hall's Marriage Theorem, Map Mechanics, Mary's College of Maryland, Angela Dellano, Chessboard Maneuvers, Even Further, Further Thoughts, Get Knotted, John Dockstader, Josh Davis, Monty Hall, Some Solutions, Alex Alapatt, Another Diabolical, Automata Antics, Avoiding the Bad Bits, Bagel Math, Bubble Trouble New!
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- The Mobius Strip: Dr. August Mobius's Marvelous Band in Mathematics, Games, Literature, Art, Technology, and Cosmology by Clifford A. Pickover in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Conjecture and Proof (Classroom Resource Materials) by Miklós Laczkovich in Front Matter
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