| Description |
xiv, 206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: PART I: Short Investigations -- Advice to the Reader -- 1. Analyzing Games -- 2. From Rhyme to Reason -- 3. Thinking Things Through -- 4. Asking Questions -- PART II: Extended Investigations; Investigation 1: Flips -- 5. Introducing 9-flips -- 6. The Art of Guessing -- 7. Other Flips -- 8. Flips in Other Bases -- 9. Counting 9-flips with n Digits -- 10. Recurrence Relations -- 11. The End of the Road. -- Solutions. -- Investigations II: The Postage Stamp Problem -- 12. Getting Stuck In -- 13. Coming Unstuck: The Search for Proof -- 14. One Picture is Worth a Thousand Words -- 15. The Final Licking -- 16. The Coin Problem -- Solutions |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- Problems, exercises, etc.
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Problem solving.
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| LC no. |
86012759 |
| ISBN |
0198532652 (U.S. : pbk.) |
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0198532822 (U.S.) |
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