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Originally published in France, this translation of mathematical conundrums offers English-speaking students, as well as lovers of math games and logic puzzles, an opportunity to meet the challenges devised by the Federation Francaise des Jeux Mathematiques for the International Championship of Mathematics. Designed to address a student's reasoning skills rather than knowledge, this engaging series of 50-problem sets represents the best of more than a decades worth of championship questions. The three collections are organized by mathematical themes- geometry and symmetry, arithmetic and number theory, logic and algorithimic process- to easily adapt to an instructor's curriculum. 50 Mathematical Puzzles and Problems will provide students hours of investigative problem solving, while reinforcing and integrating the fundamental themes of traditional and discrete mathematics. Each book is arranged with one problem per page for easy overhead use or distribution. The Red Collection is the most ambitious set in the series. Puzzles use vectors, transformations, systems of equations, series, and number theory. Problems are solved with compass and straightedge constructions, trigonometry, the Pythagorean theorem, synthetic division, and a great deal of ingenuity. For Grade 9-College.
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