Recreations Games category: 148 books

Reinforce key mathematical concepts in third grade with these fun and engaging skill-based games! Created to align to College and Career Readiness other state standards, this resource is perfect for reinforcing students' mathematical skills. Perfect for centers, workstations, or family math night,...

Reinforce key mathematical concepts in fourth grade with these fun and engaging skill-based games! Created to align to College and Career Readiness other state standards, this resource is perfect for reinforcing students' mathematical skills. Perfect for centers, workstations, or family math night,...

Reinforce key mathematical concepts in second grade with these fun and engaging skill-based games! Created to align to College and Career Readiness other state standards, this resource is perfect for reinforcing students' mathematical skills. Perfect for centers, workstations, or family math night,...

Thank you for checking out the book "Minecraft Cheats : 70 Top Minecraft Cheats Exposed!" This book will tell you how to play Minecraft with cheats enabled. That means that you would be able to explore more in every world, build awesome structures, and kill mobs. A bit of warning though - using these...

The history of mathematics is filled with major breakthroughs resulting from solutions to recreational problems. Problems of interest to gamblers led to the modern theory of probability, for example, and surreal numbers were inspired by the game of Go. Yet even with such groundbreaking findings and...

Win at chess with practical instruction from one of the world's leading teachers! With clever strategies for more than 5000 situations and clear diagrams, Chess is for the enthusiastic novice as well as the competitor taking the game to the next level. Chess takes you through more than 5,000...

Historically, many of the most important mathematical concepts arose from problems that were recreational in origin. This book takes advantage of that fact, using recreational mathematics — problems, puzzles and games — to teach students how to think critically. Encouraging active participation...

Bring learning mathematical skills into a whole new light for students in kindergarten! This book provides fun and unique skill-based games that encourage whole-group, whole-class, small-group, and partner interaction and collaboration. These activities will reinforce students' knowledge of mathematical...

Mathematics of Keno and Lotteries is an elementary treatment of the mathematics, primarily probability and simple combinatorics, involved in lotteries and keno. Keno has a long history as a high-advantage, high-payoff casino game, and state lottery games such as Powerball are mathematically similar....

Over a period of 25 years as author of the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American, Martin Gardner devoted a column every six months or so to short math problems or puzzles. He was especially careful to present new and unfamiliar puzzles that had not been included in such classic collections...

Follow the hour hand and minute hand of a clock for 24 hours. How many times do they form a right angle? Timothy's house has several rooms, each of which has an even number of doors, including doors that lead outside. Is the number of outside doors even or odd? Stimulating and delightful, this collection...

There are three loops in a tangle of rope. How many are independent, and how many are interlocked? Two knights stand on a chessboard. How many other knights must you add so that each square is occupied or threatened by a knight? Among six seemingly identical drawings of mandalas, each rotated by multiples...

“When a third grade student with a sparkle in her eyes and excitement in her voice challenges her class with a math trivia, I know that my strategies to teach, explain, and immerse students in math are working, says Shashikala Lele, a retired Montessorian. One such student asked her class to name one...

Populated by curious creatures whose stories unfold with jokes and puns, this mathematical wonderland of puzzles and games also imparts significant mathematical ideas. Ian Stewart, an active popularizer of mathematics, university professor, and former columnist for Scientific American's "Mathematical...