Singapore's bestselling Mathematical Quickies & Trickies contains more than 300 nonroutine problems to enhance students' problem-solving skills.
With many creative worked examples and questions, and with cartoons sprinkled throughout the book, Mathematical Quickies & Trickies would appeal primarily to grade 6 and above students and teachers looking for some fertile trick and tricky questions; mathletes preparing for local and regional contests and competitions; problem solvers longing to be challenged by questions whose obvious solutions are never the correct ones for what offhand appears to be true is false.
Contents 1.
Mental Computation I 2.
Mental Computation 2 3.
Number Series 4.
A Tricky Way with Fractions 5.
Test Your Calculator Proficiency 6.
Simplifying a Complex Fraction 7.
Recurring Decimals 8.
Is Zero an Even or Odd Integer? 9.
Casting Out Nines 10.
Be a Calculator Expert 11.
Division by 9 12.
Number Riddles 13.
Ten Steps to be Math Smart 14.
Shortcuts a la Trachtenberg 15.
Geometrical Quickies 1 16.
Geometrical Quickies 2 17.
Geometrical Quickies 3 18.
(Sugar + Coffee) + Milk = Sugar + (Coffee + Milk) 19.
Applications of Number Laws 20.
Law of One 21.
Distributive Law 22.
More Applications of Distributive Law 23.
The Joy of Guesstimation 24.
Are You a Fermi Disciple? 25.
Bravo Singapore 26.
Lightning Calculators 27.
Geometrical Quickies 4 28.
Some Calculator Quickies Answers & Solutions Bibliography & References About the Author Yan Kow Cheong is a math coach, writer, and editor.
A math consultant for Math Plus Consultancy, he specializes in both adult and recreational math education.
He conducts recreational and competition math courses and workshops for schools and enrichment centers, and educates the public against innumeracy and pseudoscience.
Kow Cheong has ghostwritten and edited both local and foreign textbooks and assessment (or supplementary) titles for students, teachers, and parents.
Some of his publications are: Additional Maths 360; Word Probl.
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Mathplus Publishing Mathematical quickies & trickies, paperback/kow cheong yan
