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Eight Days a Week: Puzzles, Problems and Questions to Activate the Mind - Softcover

 
9781898611097: Eight Days a Week: Puzzles, Problems and Questions to Activate the Mind

Synopsis

A collection of puzzles and problems which will be of interest to people of all ages with or without a mathematical background. This collection contains eight questions for each week of the year (hence the title - if you were wondering) - enough for one-a-day and a bonus. The questions vary in difficulty and in the length of time they take, but different people will find difficulty with different questions. Edited by Chris Bills Illustrated by John Binns Topics Include: Algebra, Angles, Area, Practice, Problem Solving, Puzzles, Starter, Stimulate

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Synopsis

You may have this book to work on the questions yourself or to give questions for other people to do. We hope there will be some questions that you find interesting and make you think about numbers differently than you had done before. We certainly hope you will discover something that you did not know before. Above all we want you to enjoy working on some of these questions. If you don't get interested in a question you don't have to work on it - there are plenty here and there should be something to appeal to everyone. Many of the questions can be worked out with a calculator. It would be a good idea to use one if you can because this is not an arithmetic test. You may prefer to use traditional pen and paper methods but if you are more interested in how to get the answer and in thinking about what the answers tell you, then spend your time on this and not on the calculation. We have given some answers in the back of the book but in many instances there are more than one answer and you may have a different one than the one given.

You should check to see if our answer is a possible solution to your interpretation of the question but also convince yourself that your answer is a correct alternative. We hope there is an opportunity for you to discuss answers with other people and to work on the solutions with others.

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