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Solve this : math activities for students and clubs / James S. Tanton.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Classroom resource materialsPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Mathematical Association of America, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 218 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781614441069
  • 1614441065
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Solve this.DDC classification:
  • 510/.76 22
LOC classification:
  • QA43 .T36 2001eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Activities and problem statements. Distribution dilemmas -- Weird shapes -- Counting on the odds ... and evens -- Dicing slicing and avoiding bad bits -- 'Impossible' paper tricks -- Tiling challenges -- Things that won't fall down -- Mobius madness : tortuous twists on a classic theme -- Infamous bicycle problem -- Making surfaces in 3 and 4 dimensional space -- Paradoxes in probability theory -- Don't turn around just once! -- It's all in a square -- Bagel math -- Capturing chaos -- Who has the advantage? -- Laundry math -- Get knotted -- Tiling and walking -- Automata antics -- Bubble trouble -- Halves and doubles -- Playing with playing cards -- Map mechanics -- Weird lotteries -- Flipped out -- Parts that do not add up to their whole -- Making the sacrifice -- Problems in parity -- Chessboard maneuvers -- Hints, some solutions and further thoughts. Solutions and discussions.
Summary: This is a collection of intriguing mathematical problems and activities linked by common themes that all involve working with objects from our everyday experience.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-215) and index.

Activities and problem statements. Distribution dilemmas -- Weird shapes -- Counting on the odds ... and evens -- Dicing slicing and avoiding bad bits -- 'Impossible' paper tricks -- Tiling challenges -- Things that won't fall down -- Mobius madness : tortuous twists on a classic theme -- Infamous bicycle problem -- Making surfaces in 3 and 4 dimensional space -- Paradoxes in probability theory -- Don't turn around just once! -- It's all in a square -- Bagel math -- Capturing chaos -- Who has the advantage? -- Laundry math -- Get knotted -- Tiling and walking -- Automata antics -- Bubble trouble -- Halves and doubles -- Playing with playing cards -- Map mechanics -- Weird lotteries -- Flipped out -- Parts that do not add up to their whole -- Making the sacrifice -- Problems in parity -- Chessboard maneuvers -- Hints, some solutions and further thoughts. Solutions and discussions.

This is a collection of intriguing mathematical problems and activities linked by common themes that all involve working with objects from our everyday experience.

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