Quantum Quandaries: 100 Brainteasers from Quantum : the Magazine of Math and ScienceFor extra credit, or just for the fun of it -- how about a brainteaser? This collection brings together 100 daunting brainteasers from NSTA's Quantum magazine. You'll find number rebus, geometry ticklers, logic puzzles, and quirky questions with a physics twist. Students and teachers alike enjoy these fun quandaries. Escapes are provided after each brainteaser. |
Contents
Section 16 | 60 |
Section 17 | 65 |
Section 18 | 69 |
Section 19 | 70 |
Section 20 | 71 |
Section 21 | 75 |
Section 22 | 79 |
Section 23 | 81 |
Section 9 | 37 |
Section 10 | 37 |
Section 11 | 43 |
Section 12 | 52 |
Section 13 | 53 |
Section 14 | 55 |
Section 15 | 56 |
Section 24 | 81 |
Section 25 | 83 |
Section 26 | 85 |
Section 27 | 88 |
Section 28 | 90 |
Section 29 | 91 |
Common terms and phrases
ABCD AC bisects BD angles area of triangle area(ABC arithmetic mean Avilov ballpoint pen barrel billion blonds blue brainteasers Buzdin cashier Celsius cents checkerboard chop circle clock color congruent decreases denote different digits diagonal digit-sum distance divisible by 17 Domashenko domino covers dress drops Dubrovsky Entropy ents equal equation exactly Field Editor five fountain pen Galperin glass goat greater half honest persons integers isosceles Katie's shoes Koshchei Kvant last digit magazine MARK SAUL math mathematics mercury minutes Moon number ending number of points olution pail pentagram perfect square pieces Piglet piles pipette problem Proizvolov Prove quadrilateral Quantum rebus rect rectangle rocks Russian Savin scored second digit seven coins shoes were green Shvetsov sides solution star strokes Surdin surface tension tails temperature Tesseract tesses thermos three-digit number tube turn Twilight Vacuumed tubes vertex vertices volume weightless windshield Winnie-the-Pooh
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