Amusing Math Puzzles – Get 430 Brain Teasers to Exercise Your Brain

More than 200 puzzles, games, designs and projects bring out the magic of math. Here are fascinating codes, wonderful geometric designs with paper and string, number triangles that do all sorts of tricks, and plenty more. The emphasis is on fun, but the book is also great for classroom projects. A glossary, reading list, and [...]

Ok here's what I'm working with.I have 4 7th graders tutoring them in math.They have math workbooks.We use a teacher's classroom after school and are not allowed to use any of the teacher's things except the chalkboard and her chalk(not the markers).I have been making it fun by turning each activity in the workbook into [...]

Hey, I am currently tutoring a 5th grader, she is good at math, yet she enjoys incorporating a game of some kind with math problems, would you have any recommendations or examples of what I could do to motivate her? Please keep in mind, I prefer games that have no physical activity or yelling involved, [...]

Some kids will sail through without bothering to do much work and score high marks. I was one of them – I hated being told to waste my time doing lots of easy problems over and over. I enjoyed math and just wanted to get on with it. Some kids will never get the hang [...]

im looking for online games that raise my math "smarts" like simple math,everyday math, im not very good with numbers and i need practice. There aren't any. Your math "intellegence" is a fixed thing. However, I expect that you are refering to a game that increases machematical proficiency. Try Yahoo! games. I expect you could [...]

Just got this book with those grid logic puzzles, I did them a long time ago and enjoyed them, but I can't remember how now… and there's no instructions in the book! Can anyone give me a general how-to rundown? Thanks! The grid is provided with a word-logic puzzle to help you keep track of [...]

Crossword and puzzles are rather mind games. I mean to learn new words in a fun way.(like in the book "Word Master") and not for kids Dictionary.com's Word of the Day & there are some adult vocabulary clubs that you can check into. Here is something else: http://www.spellingzone.com/adultspelling.html powered by Yahoo Answers addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amusingmathpuzzles.com%2Fmind-puzzles%2Fare-there-magazines-to-make-you-learn-words-through-games-not-crossword-or-puzzles’; [...]

Can anyone give me websites for mathematical puzzles provided with the answers at the end? I just wanna practice myself and I wanna know the answers so I can review it. Thanks. The problems may be any kind of puzzles…but with answers either the next page or below it. No Sudokus please. Ty! Ü http://www.braingle.com/ [...]

This home video shows a 7 year old performing a mathematical magic “guess my number” trick. See http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/magic-number-cards.html for more information. Duration : 0:2:31 addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amusingmathpuzzles.com%2Fmath-games-for-kids%2Fmelvin-the-mathemagician’; addthis_title = ‘Melvin+the+Mathemagician’; addthis_pub = ”; Technorati Tags: guess, magic, math, mathemagician, maths, melvin, my, Number, trick

I wrote a Python script to generate a series of pretty cool images, and thought it was enjoyable enough to watch that I would put it on YouTube. Basically, this is the function sin(x)+cos(y) where x and y both range from -5 to 5. The hue of a pixel’s location is the value of that [...]