More Mathematical Quickies & Trickies
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In addition to 300+ trick and tricky questions,ย More Mathematicalย Quickies & Tricklesย comes with more thanย 25 five-minute enrichment mathematics items, aimed at enhancing the mathematical problem-solving skills of problem solvers.
You wonโt only be exposed to different problem-solving techniques, commonly used in answering math contests and competitions questions, but also learn to appreciate elegant or intuitive solutions.
More Mathematicalย Quickies & Trickiesย would appeal primarily to these audiences:
* grades 6-8 students and teachers looking for some fertile trick and tricky questions;
* mathletes preparing for local and regional contests and competitions;
* problem solvers longing to be challenged by questions whose obvious solutions are never the correct ones for what offhand appears to be true is false.
Contents
1. Creative GST
2. Are You Calculator-Smart?
3. What Is the Easy Way?
4. The Magic of Three Consecutive Numbers
5. Twitter Math @MathPlus
6. What Is 27 x 37,ย Really?
7. Humanizing 1, 2, 3
8. A Mathophobia Kit
9. WITs: 13 Ways to Attain Mathematical Excellence
10. Facebook Math: Numeracy vs. Literacy
11. Thou Shalt Not Divide By Zero
12. Math Jokes to Relieve Stress
13. Look-see Proofs
14. Some PhD Math Questions
15. Mathematical Prayers
16. The Largest Product
17. Whatโs Wrong?: A Comedy of Mathematical Errors
18. The Aha! Myth
19. Sam Loydโsย Toughies
20. The Tuesday Boy Problem
21. What Is 1 + 1, Really?
22. In Love with Cryptarithms
23.ย Mathematical Kiasuism
24. The Mathemagic of 142857
25. The Lighter Side of Singapore Math
26.ย K C Yanโs Laws & Lores
27 Flee and Free from the FREE
Answers/Hints/Solutions
Bibliography & References
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He has ghostwritten and edited both local and foreign textbooks and assessment titles for students, teachers, and parents. Some of his publications areย Additional Maths 360, Geometricalย Quickies & Trickies,ย Aha! Math, andย CHRISTmaths: A Creative Problem Solving Math Book.ย http://tinyurl.com/
His academic interests involve research in math education, in particular, the psychology of learning and teaching mathematics, and creative problem solving. He is a life member of both theย Singapore Mathematical Societyย (SMS) and theย Association of Mathematics Educatorsย (AME). He is also a member ofย The Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences(ACMS).
For information about the author, clickย https://sites.google.
Fan Page for theย Mathematical Quickies & Trickies series, click fb.com/singaporemathplus
