Try It! Even More Math Problems for All

ISBN-13: 9781032524139 / Twarda / 2024 / 90 str.

Jerry Kaplan

Opis

Try It! Even More Math Problems for All is the third of three collections of offbeat, open-ended problems.

Spis treści

Preface

 

Try It! Hints and Solutions

 

1.  Finding a Pair in the Dark

2.  Planting Bushes in a Row

3.  Dividing Land Equally

4.  Choosing One for All 

5.  Constructing Revolutionary Equations

6.  Arriving at the Same Time?

7.  Getting to 50 First

8.  Counting Autos and Bicycles

9.  Finding Pentominoes

10.  Painting a Cube

11. Getting It Right

12.  Passing Trains

13. Taking the Census?

14.   Finding the Day of Birth

15.   Folding Squares into Open Cubes

16.   Using Handshakes to Find How Many

17.   Arranging Toothpicks

18.  Getting Heads and Tails

19.  Finding Area on a Grid

20.  Lining Up Pails

21.  Finding Prime Numbers

22.  Painting a Cube… Again

23.  Drawing Carefully

24.  Keeping It Real

25.  Finding N coins equal to $1

 

Try It! Photocopiable Problems

 

1.  Finding a Pair in the Dark

2.  Planting Bushes in a Row

3.  Dividing Land Equally

4.  Choosing One for All 

5.  Constructing Revolutionary Equations

6.  Arriving at the Same Time?

7.  Getting to 50 First

8.  Counting Autos and Bicycles

9.  Finding Pentominoes

10.  Painting a Cube

11. Getting It Right

12.  Passing Trains

13. Taking the Census?

14.   Finding the Day of Birth

15.   Folding Squares into Open Cubes

16.   Using Handshakes to Find How Many

17.   Arranging Toothpicks

18.  Getting Heads and Tails

19.  Finding Area on a Grid

20.  Lining Up Pails

21.  Finding Prime Numbers

22.  Painting a Cube… Again

23.  Drawing Carefully

24.  Keeping It Real

25.  Finding N coins equal to $1

 

O autorze

Jerry Kaplan is Professor Emeritus at Seton Hall University, USA.  He is the author of mathematics books for SRA, Random House, Harcourt Brace, Triumph Learning, and School Specialty.