mathematical recreations

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Ben Franklin and the magic squares

  • Murphy, Frank
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.

Making connections

50 math super puzzles
  • Canavan, Thomas
2012
Contains fifty math puzzles using logic problems.

The puzzle universe

a history of mathematics in 315 puzzles
  • Moscovich, Ivan
2015
A guide to 350 puzzles and games invented by history's key puzzle and game masterminds.

The call of the primes

surprising patterns, peculiar puzzles, and other marvels of mathematics
  • O'Shea, Owen
2016
Text and illustrations look at the world of mathematics, focusing on primes, the Lucas sequence, square numbers, and other topics.

Well played

building mathematical thinking through number games and puzzles, grades 3-5
  • Dacey, Linda Schulman
Presents games and activities for teaching mathematics.

Number magic

  • Canavan, Thomas
Provides step-by-step instructions to perform magic tricks that involve numbers.

Cracking the cube

going slow to go fast and other unexpected turns in the world of competitive Rubik's Cube solving
  • Scheffler, Ian

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