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Many of the puzzles are well known because they were discussed by Martin Gardner in his "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American. Mathematical puzzles are sometimes used to motivate students in teaching elementary school math problem solving techniques. [1]
Pages in category "Mathematical games" The following 68 pages are in this category, out of 68 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Sim, Chomp and Race Track: new games for the intellect (and not for Lady Luck) 1973 Feb: Up-and-down elevator games and Piet Hein's mechanical puzzles: 1973 Mar: The calculating rods of John Napier, the eccentric father of the logarithm 1973 Apr: How to turn a chessboard into a computer and to calculate with negabinary numbers 1973 May
Cool Math Games (branded as Coolmath Games) [a] is an online web portal that hosts HTML and Flash web browser games targeted at children and young adults. Cool Math Games is operated by Coolmath LLC and first went online in 1997 with the slogan: "Where logic & thinking meets fun & games.".
Mathematical games differ sharply from mathematical puzzles in that mathematical puzzles require specific mathematical expertise to complete, whereas mathematical games do not require a deep knowledge of mathematics to play. Often, the arithmetic core of mathematical games is not readily apparent to players untrained to note the statistical or ...
Academic Games is a competition in the U.S. in which players win by out-thinking each other in mathematics, language arts, and social studies. Formal tournaments are organized by local leagues, and on a national level by the Academic Games Leagues of America (AGLOA). Member leagues in eight states hold a national tournament every year, in which ...
The game's scores are tracked on the fingers of both hands. Splits (sometimes called Calculator, Chopsticks, or just Sticks) [citation needed] is a hand game for two or more players, in which players extend a number of fingers from each hand and transfer those scores by taking turns tapping one hand against another.
The game-play mechanic is based loosely on that of the arcade game Missile Command, but with comets falling on cities, rather than missiles.Like Missile Command, players attempt to protect their cities, but rather than using a trackball-controlled targeting cross-hair, players solve math problems that label each comet, which causes a laser to destroy it.