Real Puzzles
Author : John Q. Boyer
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Puzzles
ISBN :
Author : John Q. Boyer
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Puzzles
ISBN :
Author : Marilynn L. Rapp Buxton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,85 MB
Release : 2011-06
Category : Logic puzzles
ISBN : 9781593637125
Math Bafflers requires students to use creativity, critical thinking, and logical reasoning to perform a variety of operations and practice skills that align with state and national math standards. The book covers real-life situations requiring math skills, such as distance, liquid measures, money, time, weight, sequencing, comparison, age, area, and percentages, along with operations such as fractions, exponents, algebra, place value, and number lines. Students will make hypotheses, organize information, draw conclusions, and use syllogistic thinking. Teachers can feel confident that they are providing challenges and reinforcing important skills in a format that students enjoy! Math Bafflers builds essential critical thinking, analysis, and problem-solving skills; develops logical thinking in a fun format; uses relevant, real-life mathematical situations; and provides opportunities for differentiation. Grades 6-8
Author : A.J. Jacobs
Publisher : Crown
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,84 MB
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0593136721
The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically goes on a rollicking journey to understand the enduring power of puzzles: why we love them, what they do to our brains, and how they can improve our world. “Even though I’ve never attempted the New York Times crossword puzzle or solved the Rubik’s Cube, I couldn’t put down The Puzzler.”—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before Look for the author’s new podcast, The Puzzler, based on this book! What makes puzzles—jigsaws, mazes, riddles, sudokus—so satisfying? Be it the formation of new cerebral pathways, their close link to insight and humor, or their community-building properties, they’re among the fundamental elements that make us human. Convinced that puzzles have made him a better person, A.J. Jacobs—four-time New York Times bestselling author, master of immersion journalism, and nightly crossworder—set out to determine their myriad benefits. And maybe, in the process, solve the puzzle of our very existence. Well, almost. In The Puzzler, Jacobs meets the most zealous devotees, enters (sometimes with his family in tow) any puzzle competition that will have him, unpacks the history of the most popular puzzles, and aims to solve the most impossible head-scratchers, from a mutant Rubik’s Cube, to the hardest corn maze in America, to the most sadistic jigsaw. Chock-full of unforgettable adventures and original examples from around the world—including new work by Greg Pliska, one of America’s top puzzle-makers, and a hidden, super-challenging but solvable puzzle—The Puzzler will open readers’ eyes to the power of flexible thinking and concentration. Whether you’re puzzle obsessed or puzzle hesitant, you’ll walk away with real problem-solving strategies and pathways toward becoming a better thinker and decision maker—for these are certainly puzzling times.
Author : Linda Richard
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 21,62 MB
Release : 2020-12-22
Category :
ISBN :
Did you notice how fast time goes by when doing jigsaw puzzles? Surely there's a trick to assembling those super-sized 50K pieces! Do the math to faster puzzling, or not. These are just a few of the talking points addressed in this vast collection of topics related to the wonderful world this hobby brings to the novice and enthusiast alike.
Author : Robert A. Hearn
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 33,1 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1439865051
The authors show that there are underlying mathematical reasons for why games and puzzles are challenging (and perhaps why they are so much fun). They also show that games and puzzles can serve as powerful models of computation-quite different from the usual models of automata and circuits-offering a new way of thinking about computation. The appen
Author : Pramod Ganapathi
Publisher :
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 19,31 MB
Release : 2024-05-29
Category : Computers
ISBN :
This book presents serious mathematical and algorithmic puzzles that are mostly counterintuitive. The presented puzzles are simultaneously entertaining, challenging, intriguing, and haunting. This book introduces its readers to counterintuitive mathematical ideas and revolutionary algorithmic insights from a wide variety of topics. The presented solutions that are discovered by many mathematicians and computer scientists are highly counterintuitive and show supreme mathematical beauty. These counterintuitive solutions are intriguing to the degree that they shatter our preconceived notions, shake our long-held belief systems, debunk our fundamental intuitions, and finally rob us of sleep and haunt us for a lifetime. Multiple ways of attacking the same puzzle are presented which teach the application of elegant problem-solving strategies.
Author : Don Rubin
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780060968298
From the man who gave the world Branstorms, named one of the best puzzle books of 1989 by Games magazine, here is another collection of fifty entertaining and ingenious brain teasers that draw on the vast knowledge of pop culture that all people posses--whether they know it or not.
Author : Maria Brouwer
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 31,40 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780472102549
Combines Schumpeter's theory and modern economics to give a new view of innovation in small and large firms
Author : Rebecca Rapoport
Publisher : Quarry -- Quarto Library
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 34,31 MB
Release : 2018-08
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1631594478
Learn about the Chinese craft of creating a work of art through reassembled shapes in the interactive labs in Math Labs for Kids: Tangrams and Puzzles. Practice skills such as rule-following, counting, and shape recognition to solve puzzles and make creative pieces of work; no pricey crafting supplies needed -- use simple, household items that are just as fun and creative; adanced activities included with each lab with a Hints & Solutions section in case you get stuck.-- Back cover.
Author : Thomas Ramadhani SJ
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 2019-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1543754082
You have a choice to rewrite your story of destruction as a story of redemption. In 2013, after a prolonged struggle with shame, public humiliation and vocational crisis, Father Ramadhani was sent for a residential treatment. Working on jigsaw puzzles with fellow residents soon became his new hobby. Little did he know that this would lead him to soul-searching conversations with the images on those puzzles—Golden Gate Bridge, Dubrovnik, Riomaggiore, Sydney Opera House, Big Ben Clock Tower, Castle of Chambord, Mount Rushmore, Portland Head Lighthouse. The result is this smooth blend of Ignatian contemplation and mythic imagination. Tapping on the strength of vulnerability, this book encourages anyone dealing with inner unresolved issues, to pull away, listen, look honestly inside the soul with the eyes of an outsider, and if possible, humbly seek professional help.