The Original Area Mazes: 100 Addictive Puzzles to Solve with Simple Math - and Clever Logic!

by Naoki Inaba, Ryoichi Murakami, Alex Bellos (Introduction)

Overview

The rules are simple . . . The math is easy . . .The puzzles get harder and harder!

Once you match wits with area mazes, you’ll be hooked! Your quest is to navigate a network of rectangles to find a missing value.

Just Remember:

• Area = length × width
• Use spatial reasoning to find helpful relationships
• Whole numbers are all you need. You can always get the answer without using fractions!

Originally invented for gifted students, area mazes (menseki meiro), have taken all of Japan by storm. Are you a sudoku fanatic? Do you play brain games to stay sharp? Did you love geometry . . . or would you like to finally show it who’s boss? Feed your brain some area mazes—they could be just what you’re craving!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781615194216
Publisher:	The Experiment
Publication date:	10/10/2017
Series:	Original Area Mazes
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Alex Bellos holds a degree in mathematics and philosophy from Oxford University. His bestselling books Here’s Looking at Euclid and The Grapes of Math have been translated into more than 20 languages and were both shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book prize. His puzzle books include Can You Solve My Problems?, Puzzle Ninja, Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers, and The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book, and he is also the coauthor of the coloring books Patterns of the Universe and Visions of the Universe. He has launched an elliptical pool table, LOOP. He writes a popular-math blog and a puzzle blog for the Guardian, and he won the Association of British Science Writers award for best science blog in 2016. He lives in London.

Editorial Reviews

"The 100 maze puzzles use nothing more than the area of a rectangle in their solutions and are broken into five levels of difficulty, making them useful for working with a diverse group of students with different mathematical backgrounds."

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

"The only math you’ll need to know is that length times width equals area."

FiveThirtyEight

"Addictive."

BoingBoing

The 100 maze puzzles use nothing more than the area of a rectangle in their solutions and are broken into five levels of difficulty, making them useful for working with a diverse group of students with different mathematical backgrounds.”—The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

“The only math you’ll need to know is that length times width equals area.”—FiveThirtyEight

“Addictive.”—BoingBoing

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