Can You Figure This One Out? Mental Aerobic Math Puzzles for Everyone

The purpose of Can You Figure This One Out? Mental Aerobic Math Puzzles for Everyone is to have fun and to sharpen one's thinking. Every individual puzzle is based on the multiplication tables from one through nine. Therefore, the puzzles are actually suitable for anyone from the third grader, to whom the tables are generally introduced, through adulthood. If you are a senior citizen, these are puzzles you and your grandchildren can work on together or in competition with one another. Everyone should benefit. The kids will improve their basic math skills while the older folks will be exercising their minds and possibly warding off Alzheimer's. But these puzzles are not just for senior citizens and grandkids. They are for everyone in-between, as well. If a student doesn't know his or her tables well, there's a section in the book where one can be helped into mastering the tables. This section shows how to memorize the tables and even has several timed tests the student may take to help in mastering the tables. One of these tests only covers the tables that involve the numbers one, two, and three. Another test covers four, five, and six. Whereas, a third test covers seven, eight, and nine with the last test covering one through nine of the tables. The puzzles themselves start out in a relatively simple manner with only one value to be figured out that will solve the puzzle. The puzzles gradually become more challenging as seven and eight values must be figured out in order to solve the more complex puzzles. It doesn't matter what level a student may be on -- elementary or even college level -- there are plenty of puzzles among the 1,322 puzzles in this book that will prove challenging. If you are a teacher, these puzzles can challenge your students' minds before the day's lesson or while you are fulfilling last minute office requests. For everyone, these puzzles are just plain fun!