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Here are dozens of fascinating and mind-bending puzzles - all with straightforward answers and no trick questions - which will provide you with a uniquely enjoyable way of testing your aptitude and intelligence. Puzzles have been devised especially for MENSA by member Steve Odell.
A selection of puzzles taken from recent issues of Mathematical Pie. Anyone of almost any age who has an interest in mathematical puzzles will find something in this book to interest and challenge them.
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For the enthusiastic hobbyist Puzzles with Paper and Cardboard present a varied and stimulating selection of puzzles, games and gifts to make. From Stars and a...
This book consists of most of the material from How puzzling, How amazing and How many? by the same authors. It contains fascinating information about numbers and mazes, both historical and modern, with a large...
Puzzling paperchains
This resource from the IET teaches pupils about number sequences, patterns and predictions, in the context of making Christmas paper chains. Pupils are challenged to create the longest paper chain with just three pieces of paper.
Puzzling Parallax
In the context of visual effects in movies, students are challenged to investigate parallax by finding out how the distance of a nearby object is related to how far it appears to move when you view it from different perspectives. The activity develops graph drawing and data analysis skills.
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The first activity of this title is to cut out some pages and make eight curious open cubes with a card mirror surface. When a set of four of these cubes is placed in an open box, the reflections seen are indeed puzzling. To solve the puzzles demands logical thinking.