This new dictionary gives the definitions of over 8,000 terms used in sports and games from around the world, including mainstream sports like basketball and billiards alongside the more obscure netball and snooker.
Wordplay: Fun games for Building Reading and Writing Skills in Children with Learning Difficulties
Finally a fun way for children to learn to read and write
Learning can and should be fun. Yet many students struggling to develop their reading and writing skills are discouraged by the sheer boredom associated with learning.
Number puzzles, spatial/visual puzzles, cryptograms, Sudoku, Kokuro, logic puzzles, and word games like Frame Games are all a great way to teach math and problem-solving skills to elementary and middle school students. In these two new collections, puzzle master Terry Stickels provides puzzles and brain games that range from simple to challenging and are organized by grade level and National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) content areas. Each book offers over 300 brain games that will help students learn core math concepts and develop critical thinking skills.
The entire collection of Martin Gardner's Scientific American columns on one searchable CD! Martin Gardner’s “Mathematical Games” column ran in Scientific American from 1956 to 1986. In these columns Gardner introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the delights of mathematics and of puzzles and problem solving. His column broke such stories as Rivest, Shamir and Adelman on public-key cryptography
Word Recreations: Games and Diversions from 'Word Ways'
What is the shortest American place name? The last word in a dictionary? People have been playing with words since the time of the ancient Greeks. However, wordplay has not been percieved to be a separate field of study - logology (recreational linguistics) - until recently. The Word Ways, the Journal of Recreational Linguistics, reports new discoveries in lology. This publication presents a collection of word games and diversions from the magazine.
