The Complete Book of Fun Maths: 250 Confidence-boosting Tricks, Tests and Puzzles

by Philip Carter, Ken Russell

Overview

The idea of this book is to help build confidence with maths via a series of tests and puzzles.  After a gentle 'warm-up' section, the puzzles and tests get progressively more challenging over the course of the book.  There is a hints section for readers who get stuck, as well as a complete set of answers for every test at the back of the book.

After the 'warm-up' section, there are puzzles and tests on 'lateral thinking', 'fun with numbers',  'logic puzzles', 'geometrical puzzles' and 'difficult puzzles'. Readers will soon become familiar and comfortable with a range of tricks and tests, from magic number squares to Fibonacci numbers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781907312083
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/13/2009
Series:	The IQ Workout Series
Sold by:	JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	184
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Philip Carter and Ken Russell are UK MENSA Puzzle Editors and have compiled over 100 books on all aspects of testing, puzzles and crosswords. Visit The Enigmatic World of Philip Carter at www.knowl.demon.co.uk

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Section 1 Puzzles, tricks and tests 3

Chapter 1 The work out 5

Chapter 2 Think laterally 15

Chapter 3 Test your numerical IQ 20

Chapter 4 Funumeration 38

Chapter 5 Think logically 54

Chapter 6 The logic of gambling and probability 60

Chapter 7 Geometrical puzzles 64

Chapter 8 Complexities and curiosities 71

Section 2 Hints, answers and explanations 87

Hints 89

Answers and explanations 94

Section 3 Glossary and data 143

Glossary 145

Data 152

Section 4 Appendices 157

Appendix 1 Fibonacci and nature’s use of space 159

Appendix 2 Pi 169

Appendix 3 Topology and the Mobius strip 170