Mathematical Quickies & Trickies

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