65 Short Mysteries You Solve with Math!

One Minute Mysteries #2

by Eric Yoder, Natalie Yoder

Crack open this book to sharpen your logic and reasoning skills. These literature-based math mysteries take just one minute to read. The brainteasers are entertaining, but even better, their real-world connections help kids see math concepts and quandaries as approachable, learnable and solvable. A fun way to develop deductive reasoning skills and discover the joys of math!

Genres: Mathematics, Nonfiction, School, Childrens

192 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2010

Reviews

[Angela Lagree]

Will definitely use this in the classroom for math challenges.

[Jane Maple · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think the name is a bit misleading. None of these are mysteries (in the idea of someone trying to solve a crime) and I think you could have done it. Something goes missing in a classroom and the children need to use math to figure out if it was stolen or whatever. Instead a more accurate title would have been One Minute Word Problems: 65 Word problems you solve with math, which is fine that that is what it is but it should have been better labeled. My other issue is that some of the answers would have been better with diagrams. They use words to describe the solution, but occasionally I think it would have been clearer to kids what the solution was if they had simply diagramed the solution and maybe just added a couple sentences to explain it.

[nx74defiant · Rating 3 out of 5]

Received free from Early Reviewers

Bit of a stretch to call the short situations "mysteries". But fun ways to show applications of math in real life.

After each you get the answer and good explanations of how it worked.

[Elizabeth]

Math/500s. Found some flaws in the Spanish translation.

[Autumn Kearney · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this book. Then again I was the only one in my class that enjoyed word problems. This book makes it easy to picture what is going on in my head. I recommend it.

[Janice · Rating 3 out of 5]

Similar to One-minute mysteries, but these are solved with math. Some are good, but this volume is very hit or miss. The volume about science is much better.

I use this as a good way to keep my students entertained when I need something for a short time.