| Here are the books that keep me coming back, either for my own enjoyment or to find puzzles for my students. Many of them I have bought, and others I have borrowed so many times that the library copies are falling apart. Try one of them today -- I am sure you will love it! Love a math book? That may sound impossible to you. School ruins mathematics for most people, distorting a discipline that is half art and half sport by turning it into boring lecture and drill. Instead of drudgery, mathematics should be a game of discovery. It should give children the same "Eureka!" thrill that sent Archimedes running through town in his birthday suit. I call this the “Aha!” factor, the delight of solving a challenging puzzle. If we can find a way to give our children a good taste of that “I got it!” feeling, the thrill of working through a challenging problem and figuring it out, then we won’t be able to keep them away from math. | ||
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| Problem Solving Through Recreational Mathem...
by Bonnie Averbach $10.85 Math puzzles galore! I love this book primarily for my own recreation, but it's also a good place to look for Math Club ideas. | Creative Problem Solving in School Mathemat...
by George Lenchner Strategies for solving math problems, with many problems to try. I am using this to prepare my elementary students for the MOE... | Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Divers...
by Martin Gardner You can't go wrong with a Martin Gardner book. This is the first of a long series of books collecting his articles from Scient... |
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| How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematic...
by G. Polya $12.89 One of my all-time favorite books on solving math problems. "Polya has become the Marx and Lenin of mathematical problem solvi... | Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems ...
by William Dunham $10.40 One of my all-time favorite math books for lay readers. Dunham takes us on a tour through a dozen of the greatest theorems in ... | The Mathematical Universe: An Alphabetical ...
by William Dunham $13.57 Another great book from William Dunham. This one offers an overview of the world of math through short, topical essays from A ... |
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| Lady or the Tiger? And Other Logic Puzzles ...
by Raymond M. Smullyan We love Raymond Smullyan's logic puzzles! My math classes put several of these on posters to stump everyone at our end-of-seme... | The Riddle of Scheherazade: And Other Amazi...
by Raymond Smullyan $11.20 This Smullyan book is actually still in print. I don't know why the publisher ever let the others fade away. Look for them all... | Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics...
by Liping Ma $26.48 A book every math teacher should read (and every elementary teacher should reread annually!) Test yourself with four questions... |
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