mathematical recreations

Loosely based on Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing," twelve-year-olds Trish and Ben should be automatic friends because they both play baseball on a Little League team in Comity, Massachusetts, and they both love solving math puzzles, but obstacles stand in their way.

Shows how Benjamin Franklin, inventor, writer and scientist, created a puzzle called the magic square to keep from being bored while serving as clerk for the Pennsylvania Assembly. Includes step-by-step instructions for creating your own magic squares.

Wayside Side school is at it again with over 50 math puzzles requiring only basic math skills to solve.

Illustrated riddles introduce strategies for solving a variety of math problems by using visual clues.

A collection of mathematical and verbal brain-teasing questions interspersed with "brain vacation" jokes.

Collects mathematical problems and paradoxes for solution by the reader, with answers included.

Contains eighty reproducible comic strips and companion mini-story problems that may be used to improve the problem-solving skills of students in grades three to six.

A collection of seventy-seven math puzzles with lost, hidden, and missing number challenges. Includes answers.

This book uses four mathematical operations to describe the Vikings' ships and the Vikings' way of life.

Offers over 40 picture puzzles dealing with shapes that are designed to test math and reasoning skills. Includes answer key.