KenKen For Kids!


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KenKen For Kids! is the first-ever instructional KenKen book specifically written for children published by KenKen Puzzle LLC. Written by Sophie Kudler and narrated by LuLu the KenKen guru, a cartoon kangaroo, this book teaches how to solve KenKen puzzles by breaking down the process into several simple steps in easy-to-understand language. After learning the foundational techniques in this book to solve easy 3x3, 4x4, and 5x5 puzzles, children will have acquired the basic skills to progress to solving larger puzzles. The skills learned from this book will lead to hours of KenKen puzzle-solving fun for children while improving their problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. Join Sophie and LuLu the KenKen guru and start solving KenKen puzzles today!




KenKen For Dummies


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Your fun guide to the latest brain-teasing puzzle sensation Originally developed by a Japanese math teacher, Tetsuya Miyamoto, KenKen is the world's newest and most addictive puzzle phenomenon. The "successor of Sudoku," KenKen For Dummies is a great way for enthusiasts to tackle more than 200 easy to treacherous logic puzzles and exercise their brains at the same time. This guide takes the mystery out of the puzzles, offering strategies for solving them with ease. Learn to use all four mathematic operations to tackle these mind bending puzzles with the aid of step-by-step information, strategies, and advice, along with solutions Helps you find the most effective way to solve each KenKen puzzle Perfect for the puzzle enthusiast and makes a great gift In addition to lots of space for solving these addictive puzzles, KenKen For Dummies also offers helpful tips so any reader can become a puzzle master!




Will Shortz Presents The Monster Book of KenKen


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This monster edition of KenKen contains 300 3x3 to 9x9 size puzzles with "How to Solve" instructions and an introduction by puzzlemaster Will Shortz. The puzzles use all four mathematical operations and increase in difficulty. Features: · 300 easy-to-hard sudoku · Edited by legendary New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz · Big grids with lots of space for easy solving




Let's Play Math


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The New York Times Will Shortz Presents KenKen


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KenKen has quickly become the successor to sudoku that the world's been waiting for! KenKen became the first puzzles to be printed in the daily editions of the New York Times next to its famous crossword puzzle. This New York Times edition of KenKen contains 300 easy to hard 4x4 and 6x6 size puzzles, with "How to Solve" instructions and an introduction by puzzlemaster Will Shortz. The puzzles use all four mathematical operations and increase in difficulty, like they do in the New York Times.




Krazydad Two Not Touch Volume 1: 360 Star Battle Puzzles to Preserve Your Sanity in These Trying Times


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From krazydad, constructor of the wildly popular and addictive puzzles published in The New York Times as Two Not Touch, here are 360 of your favorite Star Battle puzzles. These puzzles will provide a healthy diversion for you in these challenging times, and help you make it to the other side with your sanity intact! Includes an instructive and pithy tutorial.




Playing with Math


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Playing with Math: Stories from Math Circles, Homeschoolers, and Passionate Teachers brings together the stories of over thirty authors who share their math enthusiasm with their communities, families, or students. After every chapter is a puzzle, game, or activity to get you and your kids playing with math too. MATH CIRCLES: Julia and Maria conduct math circles with young children. Jamylle creates a math circle for African American middle-school students. Bob and Ellen take their math circle into a prison. Colleen discovers the power of games at her after-school math center. Sue opens her home up for families to play with math. Nancy creates a math festival. HOMESCHOOLERS: Julie learns from her kids how differently each child learns math. Jimmie hesitantly dips her toe in the water, and moves her daughter toward a living math approach. Tiff, the math hater, discovers beauty in math. PASSIONATE TEACHERS: Michelle teaches math with the help of three-toed dinosaurs, while Friedrich gets his help from vampires. Pilar begs parents to let their kids discover mathematical truths without being shown our grown-up shortcuts too quickly. WHO'S THIS BOOK FOR? Parents, grandparents, teachers, math enthusiasts, math-haters who don't want to pass their affliction on...Everyone! Thoughtful stories, puzzles, games, and activities will give you new insights. Join us - we're playing with math!




Will Shortz Presents I Can KenKen! Volume 2


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Not only are these puzzles fun but KenKen helps children improve concentration, logic and arithmetic skills. Children ages 9-12 have excelled in math and gained real-life problem solving skills all from playing a puzzle so engaging that it keeps them coming back for more. This second volume of I Can KenKen features: • 75 easy all multiplication puzzles to get kids excited about KenKen • Introduction and how to solve instructions from Marilyn Burns • "Home and Classroom Guide for Parents and Teachers" by Ms. Burns • Foreword by Will Shortz




Kenken for Beginners


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KENKEN TRIED AND TRUE TIPS & TECHNIQUES is the first-ever beginner's guide to KenKen, the international math and logic puzzle sensation. Using a step-by-step method, Ellie Grueskin - the US student champion - and Josh Rosen, a Presidential Award-winning educator, walk you through actual puzzle examples, passing on proven methods and techniques for solving KenKen puzzles. Beginning with 3x3 grids for those starting out and then progressing through 5x5s, Ellie and Josh teach the rules, strategies and tricks that will make KenKen your favorite pastime...and possibly make you a KenKen champion!




Math Jokes 4 Mathy Folks


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Professor and Mathemagician, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA --