By Alfred S. Posamentier,Charles T. Salkind
ISBN-10: 0486691489
ISBN-13: 9780486691480
Designed for high-school scholars and lecturers with an curiosity in mathematical problem-solving, this stimulating assortment comprises greater than three hundred difficulties which are "off the crushed course" — i.e., difficulties that supply a brand new twist to everyday subject matters that introduce unexpected issues. With few exceptions, their answer calls for little greater than a few wisdom of uncomplicated algebra, notwithstanding a splash of ingenuity can assist.
Readers will locate right here thought-provoking posers related to equations and inequalities, diophantine equations, quantity conception, quadratic equations, logarithms, combos and likelihood, and lots more and plenty extra. the issues diversity from rather effortless to tough, and plenty of have extensions or adaptations the writer calls "challenges."
By learning those nonroutine difficulties, scholars won't simply stimulate and increase problem-solving abilities, they're going to collect necessary underpinnings for extra complicated paintings in mathematics.
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