Overview: The Infinite Pickle is a collection of 14 playful mathematical pickles. Each pickle is a whole family of puzzles - the baby bear ones have been play-tested in classrooms of seven and eight-year-olds - the big mama bear ones are difficult for the most experienced puzzlers.

Verdict: So, why would you be curious enough to invest your hard earned into purchasing this book? Well, maybe because you won’t get these puzzles in any other book, they’re uniquely flexible and fun and will get the kids in your classroom loving maths! Oh, and because they’re fun for you to try out too!

Within the pages of this thoroughly engrossing new puzzle book you find puzzles of all shapes and sizes, and more importantly, they will all help you think and connect with your inner intelligence.

For beginners and those of us that are advanced thinkers, the book and the puzzle container therein are very worthwhile to undertake, clever, delightful and aside from being a great gift for all math lovers, each pickle is a whole family of puzzles, in and unto themselves.

The baby bear ones have been play-tested in classrooms of seven and eight year olds, whereas the big mama bear ones are difficult or even the most experienced of puzzlers!

Most puzzles require general rules and unique hints, such as like in Sudoku, where only one number goes in each square, or today’s crossword puzzle has the hint 26 Across: Greek god of hunting, and so forth.

The book contains a table of puzzles, with such categories as Uncut Spaghetti, Jumping Frogs, The Greedy Pickle Monster, Glue, Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Worm, and both Bubbling Cauldrons and Banyan Tree, and you can take it from me that each and every puzzle is not only creative, but wholly innovative.

And I don’t use that word innovative lightly, as here you will experience puzzles that, perhaps, do not even have a solution, or they have one but it is hidden, or perhaps there are multiple solutions to the one puzzle!

Preparing children for algebra along with the concept of existence within analysis, many of the puzzles also involve - indirectly or directly - graph theory, an area of math that isn’t part of the K12 curriculum, but is nonetheless important to a growing, curious mind, I think you will agree.

In short, The Infinite Pickle: Math Puzzles for Everyone! by author Gordon Hamilton is a most wondrous exploration and discovery of patterns and solutions for everyone to enjoy, no matter what age you may be. Participation is the key throughout and with the problems being, at times, deep, it invites real mathematical inquiries to be made of them all.

About the Author - Gordon is a father of two teenagers - professionally he is best known for the board game Santorini and being the founder of MathPickle.com. He lives in Calgary, Canada.

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