Kow Cheong Yan

More Mathematical Quickies & Trickies Kow Cheong Yan

This long-awaited sequel to Mathematical Quickies & Trickies comes with many creative worked examples and questions, with cartoons sprinkled throughout the book to keep in line with the spirit if the first problem-solving book.

With a little knowledge of elementary mathematics, open-mindedness, and persistence, More Mathematical Quickies & Trickies promises to challenge readers wanting to improve their problem-solving skills with many hours of mental stimulation, resulting in many trick and tricky questions to appear routine rather than challenging.

More Mathematical Quickies & Trickies should appeal primarily to

* grades 5-10 students and teachers looking for some fertile trick and tricky questions

* mathletes preparing for local and regional contests and competitions

* problem solvers desiring to be challenged by nonroutine questions.

Contents

1. Creative GST
2. Are You Calculator-Smart?
3. What Is the Easy Way?
4. The Magic of Three Consecutive Numbers
5. Twitter Math @MathPlus
6. What Is 27 x 37, Really?
7. Humanizing 1, 2, 3
8. A Mathophobia Kit
9. WITs: 13 Ways to Attain Mathematical Excellence
10. Facebook Math: Numeracy vs. Literacy
11. Thou Shalt Not Divide By Zero
12. Math Jokes to Relieve Stress
13. Look-see Proofs
14. Some PhD Math Questions
15. Mathematical Prayers
16. The Largest Product
17. What's Wrong?: A Comedy of Mathematical Errors
18. The Aha! Myth
19. Sam Loyd's Toughies
20. The Tuesday Boy Problem
21. What Is 1 + 1, Really?
22. In Love with Cryptarithms
23. Mathematical Kiasuism
24. The Mathemagic of 142857
25. The Lighter Side of Singapore Math
26. K C Yan's Laws & Lores
27 Flee and Free from the FREE
Answers/Hints/Solutions
Bibliography & References