A collection of math brain teasers, card tricks, calculator riddles and more! Great teaching resource for math teachers (many grade levels).

A collection of games, tricks, and puzzles which illustrate the capabilities of a calculator.

Make developing basic math skills fun and painless With this great collection of over 125 easy-to-use games, puzzles, and activities, teachers and parents can help kids comprehend fundamental math concepts, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, place value, fractions, and more. All games and puzzles use easy-to-find household items such as paper and pencil, playing cards, coins, and dice. The activities also help children develop problem-solving skills, such as testing hypotheses, creating strategies, and organizing information, as well as spatial relations skills, part-to-whole skills, and memory. Michael Schiro, EdD (Chestnut Hill, MA), is an associate professor at the School of Education at Boston College. He is the author of several books on teaching and learning math and is a frequent presenter at local and national math conferences.

How big is one billion? If you had a billion dollars and invested it in a business that lost a thousand dollars a day, do you know how long it would take you to go broke? Answer: Two thousand years! If the pen on your desk were enlarged a billion times, the point would be longer than the Mississippi River and the cap would be big enough to enclose the Earth. These are the types of cool facts that you can learn from this intriguing book. Although few of us really understand figures greater than a few thousand, we live in a vast world of numbers. Puzzles, Games, and Tricks confronts this world in a fun, informative, and accessible way. Contained within its pages is a gold mine of information for readers to absorb and comprehend, including mathematical puzzles, formulas, games, and tricks that will captivate readers young and old. Author Jerome Meyer provides a fascinating and amazing key to the magic world of numbers. Readers will find Puzzles, Games, and Tricks one of the most readable books on mathematics ever published.

This entertaining collection of original word puzzles is brimming with games for elementary-school-age youngsters. Thirty-eight fun-filled activities feature such traditional favorites such as crosswords and search-a-word games as well as innovative puzzles incorporating homophones (words that sound alike), connect-the-letters, words that are spelled backwards, words that rhyme and much more.

This book contains reproducible puzzles, picture graphs, mazes, brain teasers, puns, coded messages, and number oddities. Topics in this book cover whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percents, powers and roots, metric measures, perimeters, areas, and volumes, miscellaneous questions, problems, tests and pre-algebra.

Mathematical dupes, sleights of hand, shady shuffles, and impossible predictions: these are just a few of the 80 ways to use a pack of cards to dazzle and baffle everyone.