Math Amazements: Astounding Investigations Uncover Math in Your World

Magic squares and golden rectangles, skeletons and footprints, quilt patterns and temari balls make math ideas come to life in Math Amazements. Thirty-five sets of activities, designed to foster active thinking, infuse excitement into some of math's "big ideas" and provide stimulating projects and extra-credit assignments.

Math Amazements covers:

Factoring and geometric shapes

Five regular solids

Eratosthenes's prime number sieve

Optical illusions

Symmetry and tessellations

How different cultures invented different ways to do multiplication

Knot theory, probability and topography

Magic squares and golden rectangles

Introductions to some of history's great mathematicians, including Plato, Fibonacci, Moebius and Gauss