Welcome to The Mathematical Playground, a book celebrating more than thirty years of the problems column in the MAA undergraduate magazine, Math Horizons. Anecdotes, interviews, and historical sketches accompany the puzzles, conveying the vibrancy o...Loe edasi...
A charming collection of puzzles created by Yoshiyuki Kotani, one of the founding members of the Academy of Recreational Mathematics, Japan. Kotani has selected some of his favorite puzzles from over 40 years of puzzle setting, most of which have ne...Loe edasi...
Bicycle or Unicycle? is a collection of 105 mathematical puzzles whose defining characteristic is the surprise encountered in their solutions. Solvers will be surprised, even occasionally shocked, at those solutions. The problems unfold into levels o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Aug-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: American Mathematical Society, ISBN-13: 9781470456351)
This collection of problems is designed for high school and undergraduate students who participate in math competitions such as the International Math Olympiads and the Putnam Competition. The book is presented as a humorous conversation between...Loe edasi...
Consists of papers originally presented at the Gathering 4 Gardner meetings. Recreational mathematics is strongly prominent with contributions from Neil Sloane, Richard Guy, Solomon Golomb, Barry Cipra, Erik Demaine, and many others....Loe edasi...
Originally published as Der mathematische Zauberstab in 2015, this book describes card and number tricks based on math and how they work. After explaining basic terminology, it details magic tricks based on the counting numbers; card tricks relat...Loe edasi...
Writing for people already running a math circle or thinking of starting one, Givental, Nemirovskaya, and Zakharevich present material that parents can use to motivate their math-loving children, elementary school teachers can use with their stud...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Nov-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: American Mathematical Society, ISBN-13: 9781470429317)
Based on presentations at the American Mathematical Society Special Session in Mathematics and Mathematics Education in Fiber Arts, held in January 2014 in Baltimore, Maryland, the eight chapters in this book bring together mathematicians to expl...Loe edasi...
Burago presents a complete curriculum for the second year in a middle-school mathematics study circle, organizing it as a collection of lessons that include the material to be used in class, the set of problems to work on, and other features to m...Loe edasi...
Drawn from the “Maths Masters” column that ran from 2007 to 2014 in Melbourne, Australia’s, Age newspaper, the 64 stories in this book, provided by the authors (who are mathematicians), address math history, school math, and math in the news, spo...Loe edasi...
The book grew out of a 2015 exhibit at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art that featured origami art from around the world and demonstrated the connection between art, engineering, design, science, and mathematics. The exhibit included con...Loe edasi...
Moscows Mathematical Festival is an annual competition attended by hundreds of middle school students since it began in 1990. Here are problems from the Festivals in 1990-2011 for students in sixth and seventh grades to try to solve, either for fun...Loe edasi...
Originating in Russia, mathematical circles are a teaching method designed to teach logical, analytical, reasoning, and mathematical abilities. Here, the technique is adapted for US students who have less preparation in math and less motivation. Auth...Loe edasi...
Math circles have existed for over a century at Russias Moscow State University, as a tool for promoting the sciences. Dorichenko presents a collection of materials used over a year in a math circle for eighth graders, organized by Moscow State Univ...Loe edasi...
Sari: DIMACS: Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Nov-2011, Hardback, Kirjastus: American Mathematical Society, ISBN-13: 9780821842959)
Graduate and undergraduate students are increasingly being exposed to the growing interface between medicine and mathematics, but little effort has been taken so far to prepare pre-college students for the change. Teachers and education researchers w...Loe edasi...
A collection of original mathematics problems of varying degrees of difficulty from the Moscow Mathematical Olympiad, this book includes problem solving hints, answers, and a section of reference facts. The problems are not standard and require wit,...Loe edasi...
Zvonkin, a mathematical researcher and teacher, relates how he conducted a math circle for preschool children in Moscow in the 1980s, which he began with his two young children. He describes the math problems he posed in sessions, strategies he tried...Loe edasi...
