The Original Area Mazes: 100 Addictive Puzzles to Solve with Simple Mathâ and Clever Logic!

Inaba, Naoki; Murakami, Ryoichi

ISBN 10: 1615194215 / ISBN 13: 9781615194216

Published by The Experiment, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Original Area Mazes: 100 Addictive Puzzles to Solve with Simple Mathâ and Clever Logic!
• Publisher: The Experiment
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1615194215
• ISBN 13: 9781615194216
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

The rules are simple . . . The math is easy . . .The puzzles get harder and harder!

Once you match wits with area mazes, you’ll be hooked! Your quest is to navigate a network of rectangles to find a missing value.

Just Remember:

• Area = length × width
• Use spatial reasoning to find helpful relationships
• Whole numbers are all you need. You can always get the answer without using fractions!

Originally invented for gifted students, area mazes (menseki meiro), have taken all of Japan by storm. Are you a sudoku fanatic? Do you play brain games to stay sharp? Did you love geometry . . . or would you like to finally show it who’s boss? Feed your brain some area mazes―they could be just what you’re craving! 100 B&W puzzles

About the Author

Alex Bellos holds a degree in mathematics and philosophy from Oxford University. His bestselling books Here’s Looking at Euclid and The Grapes of Math have been translated into more than 20 languages and were both shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book prize. His puzzle books include Can You Solve My Problems?, Puzzle Ninja,Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers, and The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book, and he is also the coauthor of the coloring books Patterns of the Universe and Visions of the Universe. He has launched an elliptical pool table, LOOP. He writes a popular-math blog and a puzzle blog for the Guardian, and he won the Association of British Science Writers award for best science blog in 2016. He lives in London.