More Mathematical Activities A Resource Book for Teachers [Paperback]

This book follows the successful Mathematical Activities and has been written to provide teachers with further ideas to enrich their teaching of mathematics.This book follows the successful Mathematical Activities and has been written to provide teachers with further ideas to enrich their teaching of mathematics. It contains 127 investigations, puzzles, games and activities together with a commentary which provides solutions and additional ideas. Suitable for use with children from age nine upwards, this book will stimulate interest and encourage mathematical thinking.This book follows the successful Mathematical Activities and has been written to provide teachers with further ideas to enrich their teaching of mathematics. It contains 127 investigations, puzzles, games and activities together with a commentary which provides solutions and additional ideas. Suitable for use with children from age nine upwards, this book will stimulate interest and encourage mathematical thinking.This book follows the successful Mathematical Activities by the same author and has been written to provide teachers with further ideas to enrich their teaching of mathematics. It contains 127 investigations, puzzles, games and practical activities together with a commentary which provides solutions and additional ideas. These activities are suitable for use with children from age nine upwards to stimulate their interest and encourage mathematical thinking.Preface; 1. Make a folding tetrahedron; 2. Six pyramids make a cube; 3. Three pyramids make a cube; 4. The Shinsei Mystery; 5. The car jam; 6. The flight controller's nightmare; 7. The vanishing act; 8. Mystifying matchsticks; 9. Calculator cricket; 10. Generating straight-line motion; 11. Make a mobile to defy gravity; 12. The triangular building site; 13. Ring the triangle; 14. K9 or one man and his dog; 15. The anti-litter campaign; 16. The railcar terminus; 17. Paving the patio; 18. Make a twistable tetrahedral torus; 19. Seeing is belil£p