Amazing Math Magic - Hardcover

Oliver Ho

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0806960175 ISBN 13: 9780806960173

Publisher: Sterling, 2001

Synopsis

Numbers, cards, coins, and shapes: with these, and a few mathematical principles, you'll turn into a magician! Just gather a few very ordinary, easy-to-find items (paper, pens, a calculator, dice, pennies, scissors), practice your patter a little, step in front of an audience--friends, family, maybe even your teachers at school--and prepare to astound them. Guess the number someone will choose; try some math telepathy; make mobius strips out of paper; and move "from one end to another"--a routine that uses a stack of cards for a very unique effect. Do an "incomplete prediction," a trick that seems as if it's going wrong...until you produce a surprise ending. Every one is easy to master--but no one else has to know that!

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Reviews

Gr. 3-6. This little handbook offers dozens of ideas for math-oriented magicians who would like to amaze their friends. Actually, it's also a good resource for teachers who want to make math more fun for their students. Whatever the audience, this clearly written guide offers tips on patter and performing as well as clear directions for tricks with numbers, cards, coins, and shapes. Cartoonlike ink drawings contribute to the light tone that makes the math more accessible. A good resource for the mathematically inclined. Carolyn Phelan
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Edition details

• Publisher: Sterling
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806960175
• ISBN 13: 9780806960173
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 96