More Mathematical Quickies Trickies

Download or read book More Mathematical Quickies & Trickies written by Yan Kow Cheong and published by MathPlus Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-awaited sequel of Mathematical Quickies & Trickles comes with many creative worked examples and questions, with cartoons sprinkled throughout the book to keep in line with the same irreverent and fun spirit of the previous book. In addition to 300+ trick and tricky questions, More Mathematical Quickies & Trickles comes with more than 25 five-minute enrichment mathematics items, aimed at enhancing the mathematical problem-solving skills of problem solvers. You won’t only be exposed to different problem-solving techniques, commonly used in answering math contests and competitions questions, but also learn to appreciate elegant or intuitive solutions. More Mathematical Quickies & Trickies would appeal primarily to these audiences: * grades 6-8 students and teachers looking for some fertile trick and tricky questions; * mathletes preparing for local and regional contests and competitions; * problem solvers longing to be challenged by questions whose obvious solutions are never the correct ones for what offhand appears to be true is false. Contents 1. Creative GST 2. Are You Calculator-Smart? 3. What Is the Easy Way? 4. The Magic of Three Consecutive Numbers 5. Twitter Math @MathPlus 6. What Is 27 x 37, Really? 7. Humanizing 1, 2, 3 8. A Mathophobia Kit 9. WITs: 13 Ways to Attain Mathematical Excellence 10. Facebook Math: Numeracy vs. Literacy 11. Thou Shalt Not Divide By Zero 12. Math Jokes to Relieve Stress 13. Look-see Proofs 14. Some PhD Math Questions 15. Mathematical Prayers 16. The Largest Product 17. What’s Wrong?: A Comedy of Mathematical Errors 18. The Aha! Myth 19. Sam Loyd’s Toughies 20. The Tuesday Boy Problem 21. What Is 1 + 1, Really? 22. In Love with Cryptarithms 23. Mathematical Kiasuism 24. The Mathemagic of 142857 25. The Lighter Side of Singapore Math 26. K C Yan’s Laws & Lores 27 Flee and Free from the FREE Answers/Hints/Solutions Bibliography & References