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Loosely based on Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing," twelve-year-olds Trish and Ben should be automatic friends because they both play baseball on a Little League team in Comity, Massachusetts, and they both love solving math puzzles, but obstacles stand in their way.
2) Math appeal
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Rhyming anecdotes present opportunities for simple math activities and hints for solving.
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In this clever guide, readers previously daunted by algebra, logic, algorithms, and all things math will discover they are better at it than they thought. This resource explores the math brain and demonstrates to readers that they use math skills all the time -- they just don't know it yet. Packed with math activities and puzzles.
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Wayside School volume 5
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Join Mrs. Jewls's class and try solving over fifty math puzzles and brainteasers. Louis Sachar and his wild Wayside School are at it again, with even more brain twisters. This sequel to the popular Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School contains an all-new line-up of more than 50 math puzzles requiring only basic math skills to solve. Full of clues and hints, the book provides all the answers in the back.
11) Number puzzles
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This wacky, cartoon-style book helps you improve your mental agility. Have a go at solving these puzzles all based around numbers and sequences. Use your maths skills and powers of deduction to work out the answers.
13) Pattern puzzles
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This wacky, cartoon-style book helps you improve your mental agility. Use your maths skills, visual skills and powers of deduction to work out the sequences and answers.
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Little Learning Labs: Math Games for Kids shares 25+ hands-on activities that make learning about math fun by drawing and building shapes, solving puzzles, and playing games. The topics covered include geometry, topology, graph theory, fractals, and more, all presented in an engaging, new way for kids to learn--and enjoy--math. From building prisms and constructing Möbius strips to coloring maps like a mathematician (with the fewest number of colors...
17) Bedtime math
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Over 100 kid-friendly story math problems on topics from jalapeños and submarines to roller coasters and flamingos, designed to make math a fun part of kids' everyday lives --
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Math rocks! At least it does in the gifted hands of Sean Connolly, who blends middle school math with fantasy to create an exciting adventure in problem-solving. These word problems are perilous, do-or-die scenarios of blood-sucking vampires (How many months would it take a single vampire to completely take over a town of 500,000 people?), or a rowboat of 5 shipwrecked sailors with a single barrel of freshwater (How much can they drink, and for how...
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Wayside School volume 4
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Join Mrs. Jewls's class and try solving over fifty math puzzles and brainteasers.