Mathematical Fun, Games and Puzzles

✍ Scribed by Frohlichstein J.

• Publisher: Dover
• Year: 1962
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 319
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This entertaining text, developed by a math teacher, uses puzzles and games to introduce the basic ideas and operations of arithmetic. Following the standard middle school curriculum, the book presents 418 problems and 120 illustrations that cover a wide range of topics: averages, fractions, decimals, percentages, powers, roots, and more. Puzzles range from easy to difficult.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 3
Contents......Page 10
Preface......Page 6
I. Introduction And History Of Mathematics......Page 16
Reading and Writing Whole Numbers......Page 21
Addition of Whole Numbers......Page 23
Subtraction oj' Whole Numbers......Page 40
Multiplication of Whole Numbers......Page 47
Division of Whole Numbers......Page 71
Averages......Page 81
Making Change......Page 84
Reducing Fractions......Page 86
Addition of Fractions......Page 88
Subtraction of Fractions......Page 91
Multiplication of Fractions......Page 92
Division of Fractions......Page 94
Addition of Decimals......Page 97
Subtraction of Decimals......Page 98
Multiplication of Decimals......Page 99
Division of Decimals......Page 101
Rate of Per Cent Missing......Page 103
Percentage Activities......Page 104
Discounts......Page 109
Commission......Page 111
Selling Price......Page 112
Banking......Page 113
Interest......Page 115
Budgets......Page 116
Linear Measurement......Page 121
Time......Page 124
Weight......Page 130
Liquid Measure......Page 131
Definitions......Page 132
Geometrical Drawings......Page 138
Scale Drawings and Map Work......Page 150
Perimeter......Page 152
Circumference......Page 154
Area......Page 155
Volume......Page 158
Topology......Page 163
XI. Graphs......Page 166
XII. Insurance......Page 171
XIII. Taxes......Page 173
XIV. The Stock Market......Page 174
Powers......Page 180
Square Root and Cube Root......Page 181
XVI. Logic Or Mathematical Reasoning......Page 187
XVII. Sign Numbers......Page 195
Formulas......Page 202
Simple Equation......Page 205
Parentheses and the Simple Equation......Page 216
Simplification......Page 217
Factoring......Page 220
Equations in Two Unknowns......Page 221
Quadratic Equations......Page 222
Answers To Puzzles......Page 224
Answers To Games......Page 309
References......Page 318