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Bestselling author and worst-drawing artist Ben Orlin expands his
oeuvre with this interactive collection of mathematical games. With
70-plus games, each taking a minute to learn and a lifetime to
master, this treasure trove will delight, educate, and entertain.
From beloved math popularizer Ben Orlin comes a masterfully
compiled collection of dozens of playable mathematical games. This
ultimate game chest draws on mathematical curios, childhood
classics, and soon-to-be classics, each hand-chosen to be (1) fun,
(2) thought-provoking, and (3) easy to play. With just paper, pens,
and the occasional handful of coins, you and a partner can enjoy
hours of fun-and hours of challenge. Orlin's sly humor, expansive
knowledge, and so-bad-they're-good drawings show us how simple
rules summon our best thinking. Games include: * Ultimate
Tic-Tac-Toe * Sprouts * Battleship * Quantum Go Fish * Dots and
Boxes * Black Hole * Order and Chaos * Sequencium * Paper Boxing *
Prophecies * Arpeggios * Banker * Francoprussian Labyrinth * Cats
and Dogs * And many more.
A party in a box! Based on Ben Orlin's Math Games with Bad
Drawings, this all-in-one game kit contains 34 simple, challenging,
meaningful math games to be played anytime, anywhere. Whether alone
or as the perfect companion to Math Games with Bad Drawings, the
Ultimate Game Collection is a treasure trove of fun that will
appeal to the idly curious, the puzzle-passionate, students,
teachers, and everyone else from ages 10 to 110. Inside this box
you'll find 34 diverting and thought-provoking games that can be
played using just the provided materials. It's the ultimate
grab-and-go collection. The Ultimate Game Collection includes: 8
customized wipe-off game boards 4 different color pens 1 eraser 11
playing pieces 2 dice A book of illustrated rules and instructions
for 34 super-fun games including: Amazons Ascenders Banker Black
Hole Bullseyes and Close Calls Cats and Dogs Connector Crossed
Domineering Dots and Boxes Dots and Triangles Hold That Line The
Know-Nothing Trivia Game Mediocrity Nazareno Neutron Number Boxes
101 and You're Done Order and Chaos Pferdeappel Pig Prophecies
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock Row Call Sequencium Sim
Splatter Sprouts Square Polyp Teeko 33 to 99 The 24 Game Ultimate
Tic-Tac-Toe and Undercut
By spinning 28 engaging mathematical tales, Orlin shows us that
calculus is simply another language to express the very things we
humans grapple with every day - love, risk, time and, most
importantly, change. Divided into two parts, "Moments" and
"Eternities," and drawing on everyone from Sherlock Holmes to Mark
Twain to David Foster Wallace, Change is the Only Constant unearths
connections between calculus, art, literature and a beloved dog
named Elvis. This is not just maths for maths' sake; it's maths for
the sake of becoming a wiser and more thoughtful human.
A hilarious and bestselling reintroduction to mathematics,
illustrating the ideas with stories, humor, and stick figures. In
Math with Bad Drawings, Ben Orlin reveals what math is all about.
His tools are unorthodox: jokes, cartoons, strange-but-true
stories, and beneath it all, the empathy of a veteran teacher who
believes that math should belong to everyone. Orlin helps us to
think like mathematicians by teaching a brand-new game of
tic-tac-toe, profiling the ten people you meet in line for the
lottery, and documenting the headaches that ensue when the Evil
Empire attempts to build a spherical Death Star. Math with Bad
Drawings will change the way you see the subject-and the world.
In MATH WITH BAD DRAWINGS, Ben Orlin answers math's three big
questions: Why do I need to learn this? When am I ever going to use
it? Why is it so hard? The answers come in various forms-cartoons,
drawings, jokes, and the stories and insights of an empathetic
teacher who believes that math should belong to everyone. Eschewing
the tired old curriculum that begins in the wading pool of addition
and subtraction and progresses to the shark infested waters of
calculus (AKA the Great Weed Out Course), Orlin instead shows us
how to think like a mathematician by teaching us a new game of
Tic-Tac-Toe, how to understand an economic crisis by rolling a pair
of dice, and the mathematical reason why you should never buy a
second lottery ticket. Every example in the book is illustrated
with his trademark "bad drawings," which convey both his humor and
his message with perfect pitch and clarity. Organized by
unconventional but compelling topics such as "Statistics: The Fine
Art of Honest Lying," "Design: The Geometry of Stuff That Works,"
and "Probability: The Mathematics of Maybe," MATH WITH BAD DRAWINGS
is a perfect read for fans of illustrated popular science.
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