This book consists of most of the material from How puzzling, How amazing and How many? by the same authors. It contains fascinating information about numbers and mazes, both historical and modern, with a large number of puzzles, problems and investigational activities. There are solutions and hints to some of the problems at the end of the book.

 

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 1995 by Cambridge University Press .

Charles and Juliet Snape produce CIRCA, a maths magazine for children at Key Stages 2 and 3, which is where these maths activities first appeared. The magazine sells on subscription to teachers. Charles and Juliet have had several maths puzzle and maze books published.

This book has the following chapters: One, two and many; Papyrus puzzle; Theseus and the minotaur; Church mazes; Crossing the river; Hindu number system; Curiouser and curiouser; Sam Loyd; Henry Ernest Dudeney; Puzzling reality; Moving; Really big numbers; Base two; Problems of Babylon; Puzzling paths; Chessboard pieces; Problem pieces; Weights and measures; Pythagorean triples and triangles; Counting on; Networks; Letters for Greeks; The Chinese triangle; Inside or outside; Ways with numbers; Paradoxes; Diophantine problems; Diophantine day; A page of pi; Inventing mazes; Arabian mathematics; How many ways?; Strings and knots; The mathematical mansion; Why do they work?; Number shapes; Celtic knots; Colourful puzzles; Cryptarithms; Chinese puzzle; Paths and points; Further ways ; Puzzle mazes; Calculate it!; Three in a row; Island routes; Curious squares; Number patterns; Miz mazes; The Maya; Liars, hats and logic; Puzzle your way in; Hedge mazes; Terces pot; Problems with primes; Adventure maze; Sets and spots; Puzzling cubes; On average; Maze games; More puzzling mazes; The path to infinity; Solutions and hints; A page of numbers