The Complete Book of Fun Maths

The idea of this book is to help build confidence with maths via aseries of tests and puzzles. After a gentle 'warm-up'section, the puzzles and tests get progressively more challengingover the course of the book. There is a hints section forreaders who get stuck, as well as a complete set of answers forevery test at the back of the book.After the 'warm-up' section, there are puzzles and tests on'lateral thinking', 'fun with numbers', 'logic puzzles','geometrical puzzles' and 'difficult puzzles'. Readers will soonbecome familiar and comfortable with a range of tricks and tests,from magic number squares to Fibonacci numbers.

ContentsIntroduction 1Section 1 Puzzles, tricks and tests 3Chapter 1 The work out 5Chapter 2 Think laterally 15Chapter 3 Test your numerical IQ 20Chapter 4 Funumeration 38Chapter 5 Think logically 54Chapter 6 The logic of gambling and probability 60Chapter 7 Geometrical puzzles 64Chapter 8 Complexities and curiosities 71Section 2 Hints, answers and explanations 87Hints 89Answers and explanations 94Section 3 Glossary and data 143Glossary 145Data 152Section 4 Appendices 157Appendix 1 Fibonacci and nature's use of space 159Appendix 2 Pi 169Appendix 3 Topology and the Mobius strip 170Introduction.Section 1: Puzzles, tricks and tests.Chapter 1: The work out.Chapter 2: Think laterally.Chapter 3: Test your numerical IQ.Chapter 4: Funumeration.Chapter 5: Think logically.Chapter 6: The logic of gambling and probability.Chapter 7: Geometrical puzzles.Chapter 8: Complexities and curiosities.Section 2: Hints, answers and explanations.Hints.Answers and explanations.Section 3: Glossary and data.Glossary.Data.Section 4: Appendices.Appendix 1: Fibonacci and nature's use of space.Appendix 2: Pi.Appendix 3: Topology and the Mobius strip.