mathematical recreations

Provides information about different aspects of creating a park in a vacant city lot, and looks at how division is used to help accomplish various tasks.

Presents sixty activities for children in grades 2-4 that help teach mental-math strategies.

Picture puzzles, games, and simple activities introduce the mathematical concepts of abstract thinking, circuitry, geometry, and topology.

A collection of old and new problems, puzzles, games, and diversions based on probability, geometry, number patterns, magic squares, and the laws of physics.

Presents a popular history of mathematics by focusing on the puzzles that civilizations posed for their own education and entertainment. Includes "puzzle problems" from ancient Africa, Egypt, Persia, China, and Greece and from cultures and texts spanning the Middle Ages and the Reniassance all the way to the present.

A collection of mathematical entertainments that were developed by Martin Gardner to help people learn the basic theories of math.

Illustrated riddles introduce strategies for solving a variety of math problems by using visual clues.

Describes the many things a calculator can do and includes word problems and games.

Shows how mathematics can be fun through the use of puzzles, stories, and games.