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|  | Authors: Arthur Benjamin, Michael Shermer
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 2967
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0307338401
Dewey Decimal Number: 510
EAN: 9780307338402
ASIN: 0307338401
Publication Date: August 8, 2006
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 Entertaining book with very good learning value May 10, 2007
R. Ghai (Hong Kong)
27 out of 30 found this review helpful
Loved this book... it is very entertaining and teaches a lot of good concepts.
A lot of the techniques are not original. But they have been put together very nicely in this book. I bought the other book by Arthur on the same topic (Mathemagics: How to Look Like a Genius Without Really Trying ) and found that a very good addition to my math books. The current book is a much enhanced and cleaned up version of that.
I do part time teaching on Math to High School students and use this book for some good ideas...
While the author seems to be a very good "stage mathematician" and a lot of his explanations try to explain the "show" aspect of the tricks, for a more complete collection of math tricks, I also refer to book by Meyer.
Very recommneded for Math enthusiasts and more for High School students.
it makes math fun again! May 8, 2007
Jessica Moore
29 out of 31 found this review helpful
My daughter had always loved math but from last year she became bored by the math curriculum her school uses. I purchased this book and after only four chapters she's engrossed in math again! She loves the tricks and voluntarily makes up her own problems to solve. She's already seeing how the techniques help her in her normal math work. She is now probably the top math student in her class. In the Beestar online math tests [...], she is ranked high in the honor roll. I'm very pleased with this book. It makes math fun to my daughter again!
Praise for "Secrets of Mental Math" May 1, 2007
Tee
5 out of 15 found this review helpful
By far the best book on mental math ever written.
Right to the point, effective, and fun! October 11, 2006
Robert Potter (Lansing, IL)
102 out of 105 found this review helpful
At first glance, this book could easily be overlooked and dismissed as another "just buy this book and follow my easy steps to becoming a (genius, millionaire, happier person, psychic, master gardener, whatever)" that would utimately leave you disappointed that you couldn't do it.
Well, this book is not that. It gets right to the point. It's very well written. It's fun. It's practical. And as long as you take your time to mentally practice what you're learning along the way, you can and should be able to master the techniques in this book. You needn't have any mathematical expertise going in. Of course, the author doesn't promise anything special about what you can do with these abilities, although there are some practical applications suggested along the way. All I can say is that it's fun and gives you something interesting to do with your brain when you're bored. And certainly if you like Math already or are a Math teacher, it can be tremendously helpful.
Arthur Benjamin wrote the main content of the book, and Michael Shermer (Skeptic Magazine founder and Scientific American columnist) wrote introductory and closing chapters. These seem a little out of place to me, but they're certainly very good and useful general information about critical thinking. In addition to Bill Nye's (The Science Guy) new intro, James Randi's (famous magician and skeptic) introduction from an earlier edition is included.
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