One Minute Mysteries: 65 Short Mysteries You Solve With Math!

By Science, Naturally!
Price $12.95
Age 10-14 yrs.

This book has a remarkable capacity to influence children's interest in math. The bite-sized nature of the mysteries, each of which is a compelling 2-page mini-story involving children who act as both sleuth and problem-solver, keeps readers hungry for more. There's nothing abstract about this book. That the mysteries present common situations kids have, and will, encounter in real life triggers a light bulb in their mind that says, 'Hey, there just might be something to this math stuff after all!' Each of the mysteries can be solved using a bit of careful thought and reasoning, but it is not at all necessary for readers to do so in order to benefit from the book. Whether they choose to work problems out on their own or to simply learn how a character arrived at the solution, readers come away with an enhanced awareness of the value of reasoning and a new found enthusiasm for this thing we call math.