FOR ALL YOU FREAKISHLY SMART MATH WHIZZES OUT THERE {WHO PUT THE REST OF US TO SHAME AND HAVE SINCE THE SECOND GRADE} AND FOR ALL THE FREAKISHLY GEEKISH TEACHERS THAT LOVED AND CODDLED THEM, HERE IS SOMETHING THAT MAY BE FUN, {IF NOT CHALLENGING} FOR YOU! BUT WAIT! IT’S ALSO FOR THOSE OF US ARITHMEPHOBES WHO ARE TIRED OF BEING FOOLED BY TRICKY MATH QUESTIONS!
MathPlus Publishing Presents:
The Mathematical Quickies & Trickies Series
“Fear not math, fear God”
1. Mathematical Quickies & Trickies
Tired of constantly being fooled by tricky math questions? No longer do you need to, because help is now available.
Singapore’s bestselling Mathematical Quickies & Trickies, which has sold over 90,000 copies locally, contains more than 300 non-routine problems to enhance students’ mathematical problem-solving skills. With many creative worked examples and questions, and with cartoons sprinkled throughout the book, Mathematical Quickies & Trickies would appeal primarily to these audiences:
* grades 5-7 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.
With proper insight, you’ll learn how to solve these tricky problems almost instantly, whose solutions are almost never the correct ones. You need no longer be caught off-guard; instead, you’ll learn to solve these questions confidently—how to tame these counter-intuitive questions into routine ones.
2. More Mathematical Quickies & Trickies
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.
3. Geometrical Quickies & Trickies
Bored by drill-and-kill geometry questions in your school textbook? Do you always feel ill-equipped to tackle those tricky questions in geometry?
Geometrical Quickies & Trickies may be the right place to broaden and deepen your visualization skills in solving geometry trick and tricky questions, commonly set in mathematics contests and competitions.
Not only you’ll be equipped with the problem-solving strategies and heuristics in solving non-routine geometry questions, but you’ll also be enriched with no fewer than 20 items of recreational geometry to enhance your appreciation with many hours of aha! moments.
Geometrical Quickies & Trickies would appeal primarily to these audiences:
* grades 6-9 students and teachers looking for some fertile trick and tricky geometry questions;
* mathletes preparing for local and regional contests and competitions;
* problem solvers longing to be challenged by geometry questions not normally discussed in the normal mathematics classroom.