My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles

 Best Collection of Math Puzzle

 

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A mind blowing Math puzzle and riddle collection which bother anyone to think twice or thrice for the solutions.

The present volume contains a rich selection of 70 of the best of these brain teasers, in some cases including references to new developments related to the puzzle. Now enthusiasts can challenge their solving skills and rattle their egos with such stimulating mind-benders as The Returning Explorer, The Mutilated Chessboard, Scrambled Box Tops, The Fork in the Road, Bronx vs. Brooklyn, Touching Cigarettes, and 64 other problems involving logic and basic math.

Another best thing is Solutions are included.

About the Author

"A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?" — Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner was a renowned author who published over 70 books on subjects from science and math to poetry and religion. He also had a lifelong passion for magic tricks and puzzles. Well known for his mathematical games column in Scientific American and his "Trick of the Month" inPhysics Teacher magazine, Gardner attracted a loyal following with his intelligence, wit, and imagination.

Personal review

 whenever I encountered such puzzles and riddles, I often thinks that who the minded has discovered that and who has created such puzzles. Now when I've faced this book I've found Martin Gardner is one of that minded person.

As a Martin Gardner's book one can never feel that he or she has buy only piece of binded papers.

The book is proven to be a better guide to enhance thinking power, being reasoning and to build "never give up" quality.
One must give a shot to this book.

A good resource for learners, creative ones, and students and for those who always try to think beyond the level.

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How to study Mathematics as major

How to study Mathematics as major

 

Description

Every year, thousands of students declare mathematics as their major. Many are extremely intelligent and hardworking.
Most of the math major tries hard to solvenew concepts and catch the real mean of the topic.

However, even the best will encounter challenges, because upper-level mathematics involves not only independent study and learning from lectures, but also a fundamental shift from calculation to proof.

This shift is demanding but it need not be mysterious -- research has revealed many insights into the mathematical thinking required, and this book translates these into practical advice for a student audience.

This book sectioned into two parts such as:
Part 1- discusses the nature of upper-level mathematics, and explains how students can adapt and extend their existing skills in order to develop good understanding.

Part 2- covers study skills as these relate to mathematics, and suggests practical approaches to learning effectively while enjoying undergraduate life. 

As the first mathematics-specific study guide, this friendly, practical text is essential reading for any mathematics major. 

Review

"Students can benefit from just 'picking it up' for a short time - now and then - and reading just about any section. The sections are relatively short - sometimes just two or three pages, but are very informative. One could easily recommend [ How to Study as a Mathematics Major] to undergraduates." --Mathematical Association of America.

About the Author

Lara Alcock is Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics Education Centre at Loughborough University, UK. An accomplished undergraduate and graduate mathematician at Warwick, her doctorate was in mathematics education before holding various academic posts including Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education and Mathematics at Rutgers University, New Jersey.
Her research focuses on the challenges students encounter as they make the transition from calculation-based to proof-based mathematics.
She was awarded the 2012 MAA Seldon Prize for Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education. She has been awarded National Teaching Fellows of 2015 by The Higher Education Academy. 

Publisher

•Oxford University Press

Personal Review

The book is having a great exposure over learning experience and gives an easy to understand explainations of topics belongs to higher level of math.
In higher studies most of the math major find it to be boring subject (even sometimes I was having same feeling) to reduce such kind of experiences Lara Alcock has given a very creative effort for making those topics more interesting by relate them to practical life.

Apart from all above reviews the best part of this book is that it is appreciated by Mathematical Association of America.

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Mathematical Mindsets: Unleashing Students' Potential

Mathematical Mindsets

Unleashing Students' Potential Through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative Teaching

Mathematical Mindsets

A Very creatively crafted math Book which shows a clear roadmap to get success in math concepts with practical examples and strategies. This Book gives proper explaination towards the problems and proven to be very helpful for parents, teachers and for students too and even for those who believes that they are not so good at math.
Jo Boaler : Stanford researcher, expert in math learning, has researched about why most of the learners find problems and difficulties in math learning and gives a proper and a brief solution in the form of this book.

Boaler has used Carol Dwek's concept of "mindset" into math teaching and parenting strategies. She suggested steps that must be taken in schools to make math more interesting to grasp.

Mathematical Mindset Teaches that how to convert mistakes and squeezing experiences into valuable learning experience. Briefly given rich math activities shows how to be reasoning in Mathematics instead of rote learning method. This book is also gives positive math mindset which also works as a boost to learner.

Mathematical Mindset provides a proven way to get success in math learning.

• Review

"positive and absorbing"
 (Teach Secondary, February 2016) 

"..full of useful and creative maths excercises."  (In Tuition, October 2016)

•  From the Back Cover

PRAISE FOR MATHEMATICAL MINDSETS

"Mistakes, struggles, creativity, beauty, flexibility, equity Jo Boaler uses these words to describe a vision of mathematics where every student thrives and becomes a mathematical thinker. By following Boaler′s roadmap, perhaps we can once and for all lay to rest decades of archaic and destructive notions about what it takes to be good at math."
Cathy Seeley, Past President, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and author of Faster Isn′t Smarter and Smarter Than We Think

• Review by customers on Amazon :-

• About the Author :

DR. JO BOALER is a professor of mathematics education at Stanford University. The author of seven books and numerous research articles, she serves as an advisor to several Silicon Valley companies and is a White House presenter on girls and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). She is a regular contributor 6to news and radio in the United States and England and recently formed youcubed.org to give teachers and parents the resources and ideas they need to inspire and excite students about mathematics.

  • My opinion 

For those who want math to be more creative and interesting subject,

and also those who think they are not good at math they must have to try this and feel a great exposure over various practical math learnings.

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Math Books : love story of line and dot

Math Books

• The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics :

From the very early edge of learning math
everyone wants to have a good resource which should be friendly, which should be easy to understand and let readers to involve in the content.

Since Math is considered to be a dry subject so, most of us wants to study math with the best manner and with fun too.
  Mostly we try to have some math resource which let us to think beyond the text books, chalk and boards and guids. And by stucking in solving problems of our traditional math resources we have avoided the beauty of math subject unknowingly.

So, here in this post I'm going to point out a book which has resolved the problem of thousands of peoples and continuously doing the same and has given a wider area to learn geometrical math with a whole new concept.
The book is:

The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

The books is based upon a love story of a line and a point or dot with some of the geometrical polyhedrons. For lower grades and early learner this book have proven one of the best resource.

Description:

Once upon a time there was a sensible straight line who was hopelessly in love with a beautiful dot. But the dot, though perfect in every way, only had eyes for a wild and unkempt squiggle.

After some days line has discovered angles! Now, with newfound self-expression, he can be in any shape like what he wants to be -a square, a triangle, a parallelogram....And that's just the beginning!
It's a very clever written story with a twist that reveals truth about relationships. You'll be amazed how this story going through your mind and unknowingly you will be gone through various mathematical concepts.

Year of Publishing :

This  was published very first in 1963 and later made into an Academy Award-winning animated short film.
Recently, this book is came into the picture on December 1, 2000.

And it is also claimed to have 70 k+ copies been sold out till date.

Review :
A very creative idea to explain the concepts of various mathematical shapes with a interesting romantic story of line and dot.

Author :
Norton Juster