In his latest book, mathematician Alfred S. Posamentier provides easily understandable, easily presentable and easily replicated tricks that one can do with mathematics.
Why do you see lightning before you hear thunder? What keeps the planets orbiting around the sun? What metal is a liquid at room temperature? Science affects everything -- yet so many of us wish we understood it better. Using an accessible question-and-answer approach, key concepts in biology, chemistry, physics, earth and general science are ......
The activity book for grown-ups who'd rather jump in puddles
Discover your chaotic alter ego with the 'Adulting Name & New Career Generator,' reveal your true mental age, and sip your way through some delicious 'Throwback Tipples' cocktail recipes. Try not to snigger as you complete your very own Business Card Collection (including CEO of Panic), or dive into Aunt Agonia's disastrously honest agony column. ......
The brain busting activity book for the young at heart
Discover your alter ego with the Old Codger Name Generator, whip up some age-defying cocktails, and become a pro at tea-leaf reading. Stretch those creaky joints with a raucous game of Finger Twister, and listen to playlists for your silver-haired escapades. Spot those elusive pill bottles, tackle crosswords, and colour outside the lines.
Mathematical Gems, Peculiar Patterns, and More Stories of Numerical Serendipity
Featuring surprising trivia gems alongside serious questions like why there is something rather than nothing, readers will be enriched by this exploration of remarkable number coincidences and the mathematics that make them possible - and probable.
Want to add some spice to your lesson plans? This revised edition of Brain-Compatible Strategies is full of creative, ready-to-use ideas to motivate, inspire, and encourage your students. If you are a newly qualified teacher just getting started with brain-compatible teaching, or a practiced expert looking for ready-to-implement ideas, this book is for you. It's 90% action steps and 10% background and theory. With easy-to-understand instructions and easy-to-implement activities, this resource will be one of your most thumbed-through references.
Contains Lewis Carroll's poem, "The Hunting of the Snark", along with Martin Gardner's "Snarkteasers", which includes questions, such as: can you rearrange the letters of ocean to spell something in which one can spend days in the ocean? But if the ocean is frisky, it's risky. Can you make the number even by crossing out one letter in Seven?
