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Bolt, Brian.

More mathematical activities : a resource book for teachers / Brian Bolt. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1985. - viii, 195 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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Make a folding tetrahedron -- Six pyramids make a cube -- Three pyramids make a cube -- Shisei mystery -- Car jam -- Flight controller's nightmare -- Vanishing act -- Mystifying match sticks -- Calculator cricket -- Generating straight-line motion -- Make a mobile to defy gravity -- Triangular building site -- Ring the triangle -- K9 or one man and his dog -- Anti-litter campaign -- Railcar terminus -- Paving the patio -- Make a twistable tetrahedral torus -- Seeing is believing! -- Spot the pattern -- Investigations on a 5X5 pinboard -- Chessboard tours -- Mind stretching.

Provides over 100 investigations, puzzles, practical activities, and games to encourage mathematical thinking. Includes solutions and additional project ideas.

ISBN: 052131951X 9780521319515

Nat. Bib. No.: GB8523025 bnb

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Mathematical recreations.
Puzzles.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Puzzles and games.

LC Class. No.: QA95

Dewey Class. No.: 515 / BOL