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This book subverts and surprises. It explores mathematical topics, finding amazing similarities and looking at familiar objects in new ways. It shows mathematics as something mysterious, intriguing and pleasurably puzzling. You do not need to be a mathematician to enjoy this book. The style is relaxed. It emphasises insight and imagination rather than technique. The book also includes many problems and puzzles for you to try, with hints and solutions. ... Read more

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Math can be magic! These tricks, puzzles, memory tests, and other experiments will get you started. All you need is a pencil, a piece of paper, and a few supplies handy around the house. Guess you friend's secret number. Balancing Act shows how you draw half a painting, and the paper creates the other half. Cricket Thermometer tells the correct time by counting the number of times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds. Or try the dozens of other fun challenges. Draw special straight lines that turn into circles. Get you Favorite Number to show up on a calculator every time. Try Zooming - taking a favorite cartoon and enlarging it with just a pencil and paper. Grab this book and you'll be ready to havefun with numbers. ... Read more

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An excellent source of activities for scout meetings
Properly presented, mathematics can be fun and amusing for children and this book is an existence proof of that fact. Whether it be numbers, computations or geometric figures, working through the mathematical operations demonstrated in this book will be a great deal of fun for children. As someone with past experience with both boy and girl scouts, I can highly recommend this book as a source of activities for meetings. ... Read more

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A Perplexing Profusion of Puzzles ... Read more

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A fantastic book of fun math problems for your spare time.Will require a lot of thinking!From the book:In issuing this volume of my Mathematical Puzzles, of which some have appeared in periodicals and others are given here for the first time, I must acknowledge the encouragement that I have received from many unknown correspondents, at home and abroad, who have expressed a desire to have the problems in a collected form, with some of the solutions given at greater length than is possible in magazines and newspapers. Though I have included a few old puzzles that have interested the world for generations, where I felt that there was something new to be said about them, the problems are in the main original. It is true that some of these have become widely known through the press, and it is possible that the reader may be glad to know their source.On the question of Mathematical Puzzles in general there is, perhaps, little more to be said than I have written elsewhere. The history of the subject entails nothing short of the actual story of the beginnings and development of exact thinking in man. The historian must start from the time when man first succeeded in counting his ten fingers and in dividing an apple into two approximately equal parts. Every puzzle that is worthy of consideration can be referred to mathematics and logic. Every man, woman, and child who tries to "reason out" the answer to the simplest puzzle is working, though not of necessity consciously, on mathematical lines. Even those puzzles that we have no way of attacking except by haphazard attempts can be brought under a method of what has been called "glorified trial"—a system of shortening our labours by avoiding or eliminating what our reason tells us is useless. It is, in fact, not easy to say sometimes where the "empirical" begins and where it ends. ... Read more

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A great free puzzle book
If I were a math teacher or had kids, this book would be worth good money despite its age. There's a collection of a few hundred math problems, involving money, time, families and other situations. They're good brain teasers.

The book doesn't have the greatest formatting for the Kindle. There are a few errors and it lacks a table of contents and proper markup, but it still works well. The only "downside" I have is that some of the math puzzles are a bit difficult when older British money was used, when the problem is compounded by the fact that you had to use shillings and pence were used, and you mention that you have a half crown and threepence in order to buy something. It's a little confusing but there's a table of conversions in the beginning.

Some Kindle deficiencies
I have this paper book, but wanted a copy for my Kindle DX. There are a few versions for the Kindle, but I shelled out a few bucks for the one that said it was optimized for larger readers.

Although it reads well, and there are illustrations, the Table of Contents doesn't work. I mean, it is there (you can see it), but it is non-functional. A bit diappointing, since I'll have to tag the locations for the chapters myself.

I think Amazon should have a bullet list when selling electronic books that tell you things like this.

I'll keep the book anyway, but there was no reason that whoever threw this up there didn't take the time to do it right.

AMUSEMENTS INMATHEMATICS
I found this book simply sensational, once it has hundreds of interesting puzzles on math and logic. One learns a lot by reading it.

Entertaining and Instructive Collection of Mathematical Puzzles A - Must Have for Puzzle Lovers

With 430 puzzles, problems, paradoxes, and brain teasers, this book is a mammoth puzzle collection, compared with most math teasers and puzzles book available. But what is important is not the quantity, but the quality and charm of the problems presented. Each problem is presented with a full length solutions that makes the book absolutely an instructive experience for the reader. In some cases the author even discussed on how others had attacked and failed the problems.

Additionally the book is fully illustrated with clever diagrams and sketches, which make the reading even more pleasant for everyone. You, your freinds and family will spend many hours trying the vast array of puzzles prented in this book.

One of the classics of Puzzledom
Dudeney was one of the two fathers of puzzles today.Amusements in Mathematics has many of Dudeney's best puzzles.An excellent book. ... Read more

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Grade 3 basic skills and more...number concepts, basic computation, geometry, problem solving, graphs, charts, puzzles and creative activities are in this workbook for home studies. ... Read more

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Giggle, Grin, Grunt and Groan with this fun math book for all ages and mathematic skills. Discover puzzles, games, curiosities, the secrets of "mathmagic," the arithmetic in art, tips to manage your money, the funny ideas of famous mathematicians, and 100 good ways to stump a friend (or a teacher).This book entertains, amuses and challenges the reader, while giving rise to a broader appreciation of mathematics. Almost all the topics covered in the book are appropriate for an elementary or pre-algebra student. Yet, they have appeal across a broad range of ages and skill levels in mathematics. Trained mathematicians, engineers and CPA's grin as happily at these materials as the student looking for a way to perplex a teacher. In the end, all come away with a greater appreciation of the mysteries of mathematics. ... Read more

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This is a great little book!
I read my copy of Mathematickle, then shared it with my grandson.He was so intrigued and curious, he took it to school to share with his math teacher.His teacher shared it with the class.It sparked enthusiasm in the classroom and my grandson reveled in being the center of attention for the day!The illustrations are a great complement to the book. ... Read more