Download or read book Magical Mathematics written by Persi Diaconis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Magical Mathematics reveals the secrets of amazing, fun-to-perform card tricks--and the profound mathematical ideas behind them--that will astound even the most accomplished magician. Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham provide easy, step-by-step instructions for each trick, explaining how to set up the effect and offering tips on what to say and do while performing it. Each card trick introduces a new mathematical idea, and varying the tricks in turn takes readers to the very threshold of today's mathematical knowledge. For example, the Gilbreath principle--a fantastic effect where the cards remain in control despite being shuffled--is found to share an intimate connection with the Mandelbrot set. Other card tricks link to the mathematical secrets of combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, topology, the Riemann hypothesis, and even Fermat's last theorem. Diaconis and Graham are mathematicians as well as skilled performers with decades of professional experience between them. In this book they share a wealth of conjuring lore, including some closely guarded secrets of legendary magicians. Magical Mathematics covers the mathematics of juggling and shows how the I Ching connects to the history of probability and magic tricks both old and new. It tells the stories--and reveals the best tricks--of the eccentric and brilliant inventors of mathematical magic. Magical Mathematics exposes old gambling secrets through the mathematics of shuffling cards, explains the classic street-gambling scam of three-card monte, traces the history of mathematical magic back to the thirteenth century and the oldest mathematical trick--and much more"-

Download or read book The Magical Math Book written by Bob Longe and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fool your friends; baffle your buddies; and perplex your parents with dozens of amazing tricks. Each of these fascinating feats appears to be the work of magical forces, but their true secret lies in mathematical manipulations. Correctly guess the age of any volunteer. Startle a stranger with knowledge about his or her life. Read minds, make accurate predictions, perform lightning-quick calculations, and demonstrate seemingly mystical powers of memory. Perform extraordinary effects with cards, dice, pencil and paper (and occasionally a calculator). In all of these tricks, the mathematical principle is well-concealed, and in many of them the use of numbers isn't even suspected. For each trick, an explanation of why it works is included in order to help you better understand the principle behind it, as well as to enable you to make your own variations on the trick or to develop other tricks on your own. Suggestions are given for what to say when introducing a trick so as to heighten suspense, increase sur prise, and keep your audience as confounded as possible. No sleight of hand is used, but with your brain power as your "magic wand," you'll have fun entertaining, amazing, and confusing people for hours. 96 pages, 51 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4. NEW IN PAPERBACK

Download or read book The Magic of Math written by Arthur Benjamin and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Magic of Math is the math book you wish you had in school. Using a delightful assortment of examples--from ice cream scoops and poker hands to measuring mountains and making magic squares--this book empowers you to see the beauty, simplicity, and truly magical properties behind those formulas and equations that once left your head spinning. You'll learn the key ideas of classic areas of mathematics like arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus, but you'll also have fun fooling around with Fibonacci numbers, investigating infinity, and marveling over mathematical magic tricks that will make you look like a math genius!"--

Download or read book Magical Maths written by Chris Oxlade and published by . This book was released on 2016-06 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mathematics Magic and Mystery written by Martin Gardner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famed puzzle expert explains math behind a multitude of mystifying tricks: card tricks, stage "mind reading," coin and match tricks, counting out games, geometric dissections, etc. More than 400 tricks. 135 illustrations.

Download or read book Vedic Mathematics for Schools written by James T. Glover and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vedic Mathematics for School offers a fresh and easy approach to learning mathematics. The system was reconstructed from ancient Vedic sources by the late Bharati Krsna Tirthaji earlier this century and is based on a small collection of sutras. Each sutra briefly encapsulates a rule of mental working, a principle or guiding maxim. Through simple practice of these methods all may become adept and efficient at mathematics. Book I of the series is intended for primary schools in which many of the fundamental concepts of mathematics are introduced. It has been written from the classroom experience of teaching Vedic mathematics to eight and nine years-old. At this age a few of the Vedic methods are used, the rest being introduced at a later stage.

Download or read book Mathematical Magic written by William Simon and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stimulating treasury of entertaining tricks, stunts, and magical effects based on such mathematical principles and ideas as magic squares, the Fibonacci Series, Moebius strips, cycloids, topology, and more. Only simple props required: from playing cards and matches to coins. No magic or mathematical skills needed.

Download or read book Math Is Magical written by A. Snick and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-08 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Product DescriptionMath Is Magical! Math Is Fun! was created to engage early math learning opportunities featuring African American characters. This book will give your young learner a simple guide for learning to count up and find the sum of addition problems. Math Is Magical! Math Is Fun! Addition is fun when you start from one. Add on more and see what is in store.The goal of the book is to support and encourage a positive attitude towards young African American readers, their perception of math, and their abilities to do math. Studies show that African American boys are a target of racialized stereotypes and have a negative perception of their ability to do math. Because of the negative association with math, it is important to showcase children who look like them because representation equals motivation. ReviewWithin the pages of this book you will find bright colorful pages filled with math based fun for early learners. The goal is to help develop young learners' number sense, mental math strategies, rhyming words, sight words, and overall love of reading rolled in one! All this while engaging, high quality math connections and reasoning. About the AuthorA. Snick is an early childhood educator who holds a MBA and a Masters of Education with an emphasis in Teacher Leadership-Urban Education. Teacher of the Year Nominee 2018-19 school year. Currently teaches general education students as well as individuals with learning challenges and special needs within a mainstream all inclusive classroom in the urban core. Well, versed in data driven curriculum writing that covers standards across subjects. As well as a wife, mother, and friend.This book is designed to foster young African American children's love of math.

Download or read book The Dragon Curve written by Alicia Burdess and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aiyana finds a long, skinny strip of paper on the ground that looks like a road. As she follows the road, she folds the paper in half, and it becomes a mountain for her to climb. With every fold, she makes a new shape, one that fuels her curiosity in wonderful ways and takes her on a magical journey into the world of fractals. This is a beautiful story about the power of imagination, mathematics, and the world around us. It is a chance for readers of all ages to catch a glimpse of the beauty of math and inspire the joy of their own inner mathematician. Fold along with Aiyana and see the magic unfold!

Download or read book Eddie Woo s Magical Maths 2 written by Eddie Woo and published by Pan. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maths is all around us. It's in the leaves on the trees and our DNA. It's in the patterns on our footpaths and the shape of the stars. Draw, doodle, colour in, code, decode, make a snowflake, count the stars, meet an octagon, map out a mystery, discover why a cyclone and a nautilus are alike... be a-mazed by maths.

Download or read book Mathemagic written by Lynda Colgan and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Number tricks for children which includes Digital wizardry, mind games calculator magic and more!

Download or read book Mathematical Mysteries written by Calvin C. Clawson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meditation on the beauty and meaning of numbers, exploring mathematical equations, describing some of the mathematical discoveries of the past millennia, and pondering philosophical questions about the relation of numbers to the universe.

Download or read book Magical Mathematical Properties written by Lisa Arias and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Properties aren’t magic! They are special rules that numbers follow so you can solve problems quickly in your head. Using detailed instructions and rhythmic text, students gain understanding of when and how to use mathematical properties. This book will allow students to apply properties of operations as a strategy to add and subtract, or multiply and divide.

Download or read book Ying and the Magic Turtle written by Sue Looney and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story book for all ages to experience mathematics, problems solving, and the rewards that come with perseverance."Long ago in the land of China, there were many rain storms ... and the land of China was slowly sinking into the sea. This is the story of how a wise emperor, an observant girl, and a magic turtle saved the villages of China from the great flood." So begins the story of Ying and the Magic Turtle. Children ages 5 and up, parents, and teachers can enjoy the book for its rich beauty in mathematics and as an ancient legend. It is the kind of story to revisit over and over again.This book is perhaps best experienced with someone, as a read-aloud or read-together. When reading, we learn of Ying's trouble, and we root for her to find her solution. We find ourselves drawn into the life problems that Ying is facing, but also drawn into the inherent mathematics of the story. It is through the beauty of the pattern of the dots on the turtle's shell that the solution is finally found and the land is saved.We can appreciate each scene as we read, and then pause and predict what might come next. We can play with the mathematics, solving right alongside Ying. We can delve deeper into the power of magic squares by working with puzzles presented at the end of the story. There are unsolved problems in number theory even a young child can try, such as finding all the possible magic squares of a given size.

Download or read book Mathematical Card Magic written by Colm Mulcahy and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematical card effects offer both beginning and experienced magicians an opportunity to entertain with a minimum of props. Featuring mostly original creations, Mathematical Card Magic: Fifty-Two New Effects presents an entertaining look at new mathematically based card tricks. Each chapter contains four card effects, generally starting with simple applications of a particular mathematical principle and ending with more complex ones. Practice a handful of the introductory effects and, in no time, you’ll establish your reputation as a "mathemagician." Delve a little deeper into each chapter and the mathematics gets more interesting. The author explains the mathematics as needed in an easy-to-follow way. He also provides additional details, background, and suggestions for further explorations. Suitable for recreational math buffs and amateur card lovers or as a text in a first-year seminar, this color book offers a diverse collection of new mathemagic principles and effects.

Download or read book Grumpy Gloria written by Anna Dewdney and published by Viking Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2006-09-21 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family members try various ways to cheer up their grouchy bulldog.

Download or read book Math Magic written by Sunil Tanna and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Math Magic: Amazing Tricks With Numbers, Arithmetic & Geometry! is a guide to 40 math-based magical tricks. The instructions for each trick explain what props or accessories are needed (for example playing cards or calculator), how the trick appears to the audience, how to perform the trick, and in many cases, the mathematical secrets behind the trick. This book is ideal for magicians looking for something new and different to add to their acts, those who simply want to amaze their friends, and for mathematics teachers and educators who wish to inspire their students with fun and interesting mathematical ideas.