Math Games for Middle School

Challenges and Skill-Builders for Students at Every Level

Mario Salvadori, Joseph P. Wright

• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9781569767276
• Year: 1998

From addition and subtraction to plane and space geometry, simultaneous linear equations, and probability, this book explains middle school math with problems that kids want to solve: "Seventy-five employees of a company buy a lotto ticket together and win $22.5 million. How much does each employee get?" Intriguing facts about the history of math show what a human creation it is, and human errors are revealed through explorations of both Maya and Hindu concepts of zero as well as Mr. William Shanks' 1858 attempt at hand-calculating pi.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter One The Invention of Numbers
• Chapter Two Adding, Multiplying, Subtracting, and Dividing Numbers
• Chapter Three More Operations on Numbers
• Chapter Four Measurements
• Chapter Five Plane Geometry
• Chapter Six Space Geometry
• Chapter Seven The Art of Graphing
• Chapter Eight Simultaneous Linear Equations
• Chapter Nine Permutations And Combinations
• Chapter Ten The Mathematics of Chance
• Answers Answers to Math Camps
• Index