Download or read book Pentomino Puzzles written by Eric Harshbarger and published by Puzzlewright. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pentominoes drive puzzle fans wild-and a complete set of these versatile tiles is packaged with every copy of this fun-filled book! These 12 unique shapes, each formed by 5 squares joined edge to edge, must be fitted together to match specific patterns-from simple rectangles to animals and people. Eric Harshbarger is a mathematician by education, a computer engineer by trade, and a puzzle wizard by personal choice. His website (www.ericharshbarger.org) features his astounding creations with Lego bricks, among other marvels. Book comes with a full set of plastic pentominoes, making this a great gift

Download or read book Chasing Vermeer Scholastic Gold written by Blue Balliett and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chasing Vermeer joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!When a book of unexplainable occurences brings Petra and Calder together, strange things start to happen: Seemingly unrelated events connect; an eccentric old woman seeks their company; an invaluable Vermeer painting disappears. Before they know it, the two find themselves at the center of an international art scandal, where no one is spared from suspicion. As Petra and Calder are drawn clue by clue into a mysterious labyrinth, they must draw on their powers of intuition, their problem solving skills, and their knowledge of Vermeer. Can they decipher a crime that has stumped even the FBI?

Download or read book Pentominoes written by Jon Millington and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you take five squares of the same size and join them edge to edge, the resulting shape is called a pentomino. This book shows some of the possibilities, poses some problems and suggests fruitful lines of investigtion.

Download or read book Polyominoes written by Solomon W. Golomb and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspiring popular video games like Tetris while contributing to the study of combinatorial geometry and tiling theory, polyominoes have continued to spark interest ever since their inventor, Solomon Golomb, introduced them to puzzle enthusiasts several decades ago. In this fully revised and expanded edition of his landmark book, the author takes a new generation of readers on a mathematical journey into the world of the deceptively simple polyomino. Golomb incorporates important, recent developments, and poses problems, inviting the reader to play with and develop an understanding of the extraordinary properties of polyominoes.

Download or read book Polyominoes A Guide to Puzzles and Problems in Tiling written by George E. Martin and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polyominoes will delight not only students and teachers of mathematics at all levels, but will be appreciated by anyone who likes a good geometric challenge. There are no prerequisites. If you like jigsaw puzzles, or if you hate jigsaw puzzles but have ever wondered about the pattern of some floor tiling, there is much here to interest you. A polyomino is a shape cut along the lines from square graph paper; the pronunciation of polyomino begins as does polygon and ends as does domino. Tilings, also called tessellations of mosaic patterns, are older than civilization itself. Tiling with polyominoes provides challenges that range from the popular jigsaw-like puzzles to easily understood mathematical research problems. You will find unsolved puzzles and problems of both kinds here. Answers are provided for most of the problems that have known solutions. It is only fair to repeat here the warning stated in the preface to this book, "Playing with polyominoes can be habit forming."

Download or read book Pentomino Lessons written by Henri Picciotto and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pentominoes are colored geometric shapes that fit together like puzzle pieces. Activities with them encourage development of problem solving and visual perception skills, and recognition of geometric shapes and relationships. Set includes 6 sets of 12 pieces each.

Download or read book The Art of Puzzles written by Thomas Snyder and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Puzzles is a collection of mental masterpieces from the world's most talented puzzle designers. With ten genres of logic puzzles and over 270 puzzles in total, this book has a great mix of challenges including shading puzzles (Tapa and Nurikabe), loop puzzles (Masyu and Slitherlink), number placement puzzles (Skyscrapers and TomTom), object placement puzzles (Star Battle and Battleships), and region division puzzles (Cave and Fillomino). Each section has a mix of very easy to fiendishly hard puzzles, with hints for every puzzle to help you to become a better logic puzzler.

Download or read book The Wright 3 written by Blue Balliett and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times-bestselling team behind Chasing Vermeer comes another thought-provoking art mystery featuring Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie house--now in After Words paperback! Spring semester at the Lab School in Hyde Park finds Petra and Calder drawn into another mystery when unexplainable accidents and ghostly happenings throw a spotlight on Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House, and it's up to the two junior sleuths to piece together the clues. Stir in the return of Calder's friend Tommy (which creates a tense triangle), H.G. Wells's The Invisible Man, 3-D pentominoes, and the hunt for a coded message left behind by Wright, and the kids become tangled in a dangerous web in which life and art intermingle with death, deception, and surprise.

Download or read book Tough Topology Problems Other Puzzles written by Ivan Moscovich and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorful geometrical pentagors, composed of pentagons and triangles and dissected into pieces: Can you put the shapes together again to form a whole? A classic paradox about the nature of motion from a famous Greek mathematician: Can you see what’s wrong with it? Put on your thinking cap and prepare to give your math and logic abilities a workout, because these super-looking puzzles demand real brainpower. Solve a graphic problem that involves the calculation of a square root. Examine six linear processions of egg-carrying ants, and figure out which lines are “surprising” and which ones aren’t. Go step by step through a multihued grid and try to find 32 different configurations within. These puzzles are challenging, entertaining, and satisfying to unravel.

Download or read book Puzzles for Pleasure written by Barry R. Clarke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-09 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you one of the millions of people throughout the world that are fascinated by puzzles, conundrums and brain teasers? If so then you will want this collection of amusing twisters from Barry Clarke. Based on his extensive experience of writing for the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times and New Scientist, Clarke has gathered together a variety of posers, together with hints and full solutions. Several examples of a brand new type of puzzle, The Word Bandit, are included as well. The whole gamut of others from logical and liar problems through to digital deletions are included. The puzzles themselves require no special mathematical knowledge, though for those in the 'Advanced' section even seasoned solvers will need to work pretty hard to find the answer. There is something for everyone here; puzzles for children, for the family, for members of Mensa, but above all Puzzles for Pleasure.

Download or read book Mathematics is Beautiful written by Heinz Klaus Strick and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 17 chapters, this book attempts to deal with well-known and less well-known topics in mathematics. This is done in a vivid way and therefore the book contains a wealth of colour illustrations. It deals with stars and polygons, rectangles and circles, straight and curved lines, natural numbers, square numbers and much more. If you look at the illustrations, you will discover plenty of exciting and beautiful things in mathematics. The book offers a variety of suggestions to think about what is depicted and to experiment in order to make and check your own assumptions. For many topics, no (or only few) prerequisites from school lessons are needed. It is an important concern of the book that young people find their way to mathematics and that readers whose school days are some time ago discover new things. The numerous references to internet sites and further literature help in this respect. "Solutions" to the suggestions interspersed in the individual sections can be downloaded from the Springer website. The book was thus written for everyone who enjoys mathematics or who would like to understand why the book bears this title. It is also aimed at teachers who want to give their students additional or new motivation to learn. This book is a translation of the original German 2nd edition Mathematik ist schön by Heinz Klaus Strick, published by Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature in 2019. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). In the subsequent editing, the author, with the friendly support of John O'Connor, St Andrews University, Scotland, tried to make it closer to a conventional translation. Still, the book may read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.

Download or read book Let s Play Math written by Denise Gaskins and published by Tabletop Academy Press. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Calder Game written by Blue Balliett and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new mystery from bestselling author Blue Balliett is now available in After Words paperback!When Calder Pillay travels with his father to a remote village in England, he finds a mix of mazes and mystery . . . including an unexpected Alexander Calder sculpture in the town square. Calder is strangely drawn to the sculpture, while other people have less-than-friendly feelings towards it. Both the boy and the sculpture seem to be out of place . . . and then, on the same night, they disappear! Calder's friends Petra and Tommy must fly out to help his father find him. But this mystery has more twists and turns than a Calder mobile . . . with more at stake than first meets the eye.

Download or read book 50 Strategies for Summer School Engagement ebook written by Ana Marie Hernandez and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing 50 Strategies for Summer School Engagement, the latest addition to the highly acclaimed 50 Strategies series. Designed to provide K-8 educators with practical, research-backed ideas to enhance the summer school experience, this book is an invaluable resource for teachers seeking innovative and engaging approaches to summer learning. Summer school offers a unique opportunity for students to accomplish grade-level learning objectives in a more relaxed environment, often with smaller class sizes. 50 Strategies for Summer School Engagement is specifically tailored to make summer learning, enjoyable, and engaging. The book is your ultimate guide to infusing your summer school sessions with creative, effective teaching strategies. This strategy book is divided into five main sections, each offering a diverse set of innovative approaches. Outdoor and Community Building: Explore strategies that take learning beyond the classroom and into the great outdoors, fostering a sense of community among students. Performing Arts: Discover creative techniques that utilize performing arts to make learning both fun and educational, encouraging students to express themselves. Culture Studies: Dive into strategies that explore different cultures, helping students gain a broader perspective of the world around them. Playful Learning: Infuse a sense of play and creativity into your summer school curriculum, ensuring students AND teachers remain engaged and motivated. Differentiating for Summer: Tailor your teaching to meet the unique needs of your summer school students, making sure that every learner can thrive. With 50 Strategies for Summer School Engagement, you have access to a treasure trove of educational ideas that can be swiftly integrated into your summer school program. Whether you are a seasoned educator or just beginning your teaching journey, this book is designed to help you create an engaging, enriching summer school experience for your students. Get ready to transform your summer school sessions into a time of growth, exploration, and fun with this outstanding resource.

Download or read book Frontiers in Algorithms written by D.T. Lee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-26 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Frontiers of Algorithmics Workshop, FAW 2010, held in Wuhan, China, in August 2010. The 28 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. The Workshop will provide a focused forum on current trends of research on algorithms, discrete structures, and their applications, and will bring together international experts at the research frontiers in these areas to exchange ideas and to present significant new results. The mission of the Workshop is to stimulate the various fields for which algorithmics can become a crucial enabler, and to strengthen the ties between the Eastern and Western research communities of algorithmics and applications.

Download or read book Visual Spatial Thinking for Advanced Learners Grades 3 5 written by Emily Hollett and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visual-Spatial Thinking for Advanced Learners, Grades 3–5 will teach students how to perceive and represent visual information, and to mentally manipulate objects within space. Visual-spatial thinking is a skill which helps students develop depth, complexity, and abstraction in thinking and inquiry. Working through the lessons and handouts in this book, students will develop spatial language, learn to visualize and mentally manipulate visual information, look at objects from varying perspectives, explore dimension, and seek structure in organizing visual information. This curriculum provides cohesive, focused, scaffolded lessons to teach each targeted area of competency followed by authentic application activities for students to then apply their newly developed skill set. This book can be used as a stand-alone gifted curriculum or as part of an integrated curriculum. Each lesson ties in both reading and metacognitive skills, making it easy for teachers to incorporate into a variety of contexts.

Download or read book The Tetris Effect written by Dan Ackerman and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive story of a game so great, even the Cold War couldn't stop it Tetris is perhaps the most instantly recognizable, popular video game ever made. But how did an obscure Soviet programmer, working on frail, antiquated computers, create a product which has now earned nearly 1 billion in sales? How did a makeshift game turn into a worldwide sensation, which has been displayed at the Museum of Modern Art, inspired a big-budget sci-fi movie, and been played in outer space? A quiet but brilliant young man, Alexey Pajitnov had long nurtured a love for the obscure puzzle game pentominoes, and became obsessed with turning it into a computer game. Little did he know that the project that he labored on alone, hour after hour, would soon become the most addictive game ever made. In this fast-paced business story, reporter Dan Ackerman reveals how Tetris became one of the world's first viral hits, passed from player to player, eventually breaking through the Iron Curtain into the West. British, American, and Japanese moguls waged a bitter fight over the rights, sending their fixers racing around the globe to secure backroom deals, while a secretive Soviet organization named ELORG chased down the game's growing global profits. The Tetris Effect is an homage to both creator and creation, and a must-read for anyone who's ever played the game—which is to say everyone.