mathematical recreations

Photographs and easy-to-follow text introduce young readers to structures.

Colorful photographs and easy-to-follow text introduce young readers to flexagon paper art.

Presents games, craft projects, puzzles, and quizzes designed to help teach young children develop the mathematical skills of problem solving, matching, and sorting.

Includes simple activities, games, and puzzles meant to help young children learn math.

Presents seventy-five math puzzles involving numbers, geometric shapes, and topology, rated at three levels of difficulty.

Gives directions for a variety of tricks involving numbers, explains why they work, and suggests techniques for using them in a performance before an audience.

Presents step-by-step instructions for mind reading and prediction tricks based on elementary mathematics.

A collection of Martin Gardner's Scientific American columns including mathematical games, problems, paradoxes, teasers, and tricks.

Presents games and other activities from different countries and cultures that teach a variety of basic mathematical concepts.

Help Zeno the Martian solve the mathematical puzzles that he encounters on his visit to Planet Omicron.