Math Fun: A Guide for Pre-College Students and the Parents Teachers & Mentors of Grade School Children

The exercises in this Math Fun book were designed to instill in the children a good healthy feeling for math. By teaching the mathematical basis for playing games and doing puzzles the author anticipates that the children will have a feeling of power and fun as they defeat their elders and playmates. This experience should give them an appreciation for the source of this power; namely mathematics! Finally it is his hope that the beauty of mathematics its logic and symmetry and pattern will become apparent to the students. Another goal in this book is to teach children a variety of problem-solving techniques and to try to convince them to be prepared to look at a problem with an open mind by taking advantage of isomorphism for example.