Complete Book of Fun Maths - 250 Confidence-Boosting Tricks, Tests and Puzzles

Klappentext The idea of this book is to help build confidence with maths via a series of tests and puzzles. After a gentle 'warm-up' section! the puzzles and tests get progressively more challenging over the course of the book. There is a hints section for readers who get stuck! as well as a complete set of answers for every 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 soon become familiar and comfortable with a range of tricks and tests! from magic number squares to Fibonacci numbers. Zusammenfassung The idea of this book is to help build confidence with maths via a series of tests and puzzles. After a gentle a warm--upa section! the puzzles and tests get progressively more challenging over the course of the book. There is a hints section for readers who get stuck! as well as a complete set of answers for every test at the back of the book. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: p Carter, P. Russell Carter, Philip Carter, Philip J. Carter, Philip J. Russell Carter, Philip Russell Carter, Ken Russell
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.04.2004
• EAN: 9780470870914
• ISBN: 978-0-470-87091-4
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: The IQ Workout Series; IQ Workout S.; The IQ Workout Series
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Games, quizzes; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; MATHEMATICS / General, Mathematics, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Puzzles, Puzzles & quizzes, Puzzles and quizzes, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Quizzes