Tarquin publications gb (409 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: New. A classic title that has been used to teach hundreds of thousands - possibly millions - of students over the years! This book is intended to act as an encouragement for children to learn their tables. On every page there are diagrams made up of small numbered areas. If that number will divide by the number being studied, then the area has to be colored. When all the target areas of a particular puzzle are colored, then the hidden picture is revealed. There are also other charts and hundred squares to colour and the book is then rounded off with a target test to confirm the progress being made.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Following the pattern of her previous book, this second collection by Hilary McElderry offers new pictures to color and further opportunity and encouragement for children to learn and practise their multiplication tables. It is intended to act as an encouragement for children to learn their tables. On every page there are diagrams made up of small numbered areas. If that number will divide by the number being studied, then the area has to be colored or shaded. When all the target areas of a particular puzzle are colored, then the hidden picture is revealed. There are also other charts and hundred squares to color and the book is then rounded off with a target test to confirm the progress being made.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Tarquin Popups are a special kind of do it yourself activity book. Not only is there the fun of making the scenes and seeing them popup but they are full of interesting information and ideas. This book contains six main scenes to make: Knossos, the Palace of Minos, the Lion Gate at Mycenae, the Battle of Salamis, the Golden Age of Athens, the Theatre, Alexander the Great and King Porus. There are a number of mini popups as well. Close the book and they fold away. Open it and they popup again. These vivid, colourful three dimensional scenes help to bring Ancient Civilisations to life in a way which no other kind of book can.…

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Paperback. Condición: New. A dot-to-dot book with a difference - for anyone who can use a ruler. Using a ruler, draw a straight line between the numbered dots, connecting them in sequence, and watch how the mind assembles the series of lines to create an illusion of a curve, or curves. If you use a pencil to complete the puzzle in the first instance, you can correct any mistakes, then ink in the lines for the final art. The book nourishes the mind as well as the senses though - the "curve stitching" effects have long fascinated mathematicians and the book will provide mathematics teachers and parents with something worthwhile with which to occupy students profitably. Teacher and parent notes are provided on how to use the book.Ultimately though, this is book for those who like to create and who like visual illusions. Hours of fun.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Each of 15 emojis represents a number to enter into the grid--but which one? Some values are given to you (more than in the tougher companion volume), and following simple rules, you have to work out the rest.Les Page has devised some ingenious and challenging new puzzles for anyone who enjoys Sudoku, KenKen, Train Tracks, and similar puzzles. A puzzling breath of fresh air.…

Paperback. Condición: New. This collection of sixteen clever puzzle pictures offers lots of practice in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. For the earlier puzzles, all the numbers are whole numbers. After that they include fractions, decimals, percentages and ratios. It offers a visual and imaginative approach to getting more practice and is called Arithmetic Arithmetic. because there are two different sets of sums for each of the pictures. Choose the easier set, the harder set or if you wish, both.…

Paperback. Condición: New. This collection of sixteen clever puzzle pictures offers lots of practice in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. For the earlier puzzles, all the numbers are whole numbers. After that they include fractions, decimals, percentages and ratios. It offers a visual and imaginative approach to getting more practice and is called Arithmetic Arithmetic. because there are two different sets of sums for each of the pictures. Choose the easier set, the harder set or if you wish, both.…

Paperback. Condición: New. A classic title that has been used to teach hundreds of thousands - possibly millions - of students over the years! This book is intended to act as an encouragement for children to learn their tables. On every page there are diagrams made up of small numbered areas. If that number will divide by the number being studied, then the area has to be colored. When all the target areas of a particular puzzle are colored, then the hidden picture is revealed. There are also other charts and hundred squares to colour and the book is then rounded off with a target test to confirm the progress being made.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Children love making these beautiful shapes which are such fun to decorate. Each model is printed on crisp white paper ready to cut out and glue together. There are at least twelve hours of enjoyment in each book and the finished models make a fine collection. There are plenty of suggestions and ideas for coloring and decorating.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Children love making these beautiful shapes which are such fun to decorate. Each model is printed on crisp white paper ready to cut out and glue together. There are at least twelve hours of enjoyment in this book and the finished models make a fine collection. There are plenty of suggestions and ideas for coloring and decorating.Make Shapes 2 has slightly more complex models than Make Shapes 1.…

Paperback. Condición: New. This intriguing collection of puzzles all start from the same simple idea, that of cutting and folding a square of paper marked with 25 smaller squares. You have to imagine the resulting shape in three dimensions after making the given set of cuts and folds. Then to match it with one of nine given views. The paper is colored differently on both sides and this provides further useful clues to help with visualising the possible solutions.…

Paperback. Condición: New. This beautiful model to cut out and glue together has twelve sharp spikes emerging from pentagonal cups and forming ten pairs of parallel planes, each in a different colour.None of these ten colours occurs more than once on any spike or cup.When completed, the polyhedron rests on a horizontal surface on just three spikes.Simple and logical instructions followed carefully yield extraordinary results.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Each of 15 letters represents a number to enter into the Nightmare Blocks grid--but which one? Some values are given to you, and following simple rules, you have to work out the rest. Les Page has devised some ingenious and challenging new puzzles for anyone who enjoys Sudoku, KenKen, Train Tracks, and similar puzzles. A puzzling breath of fresh air.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Bricks and tiles are two of the most universal and ancient building materials and they are able to combine tremendous versatility with the economies and advantages of mass production of standard units. They are employed in repetitive arrangements both to give strength to the structure and to cover surfaces, leading to many different kinds of bonds and styles of surface patterning. Whether you raise your eyes upwards or drop them to look at floors or pavements, there are patterns to be seen and this book draws attention to them. Full of clear colour photographs, and drawings to analyse them, this book will provide designers and artists with a wealth of ideas.…

Mixed Media Product. Condición: New. A card mirror is the key to this amazing exploration of visual and verbal connections. Each of the pictures can be transformed by means of the mirror into a pair of opposites. Concepts like "open and shut," "tidy and untidy," "ancient and modern" are each illustrated by placing the mirror in just the right places on what seem to be perfectly normal pictures. Much ingenuity has gone into creating these pictures and Duncan Birmingham's work will give great delight to children of 5 and well upwards. Probably many adults too.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Each of 15 letters represents a number to enter into the Nightmare Blocks grid--but which one? Some values are given to you, and following simple rules, you have to work out the rest. Les Page has devised some ingenious and challenging new puzzles for anyone who enjoys Sudoku, KenKen, Train Tracks, and similar puzzles. Sometimes difficult, sometimes easier--but always interesting.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Children love making these beautiful shapes which are such fun to decorate. Each model is printed on crisp white paper ready to cut out and glue together. There are at least twelve hours of enjoyment in this book and the finished models make a fine collection. There are plenty of suggestions and ideas for coloring and decorating.Make Shapes 2 has slightly more complex models than Make Shapes 1.…

Paperback. Condición: New. *Readers get no clues to what the puzzle is about*They may take hours or even days to work out what is being asked of them*Even after that, some problems may have no solutionThe result - a really challenging book that will fascinate anyone interested in puzzles and recreational mathematicians in particular. This volume contains 36 puz-zles ranging from quite easy to quite difficult.…

Paperback. Condición: New. 1. City of Rome. 2. The Forum. 3. The Roman House. 4. The Army. 5. Gladiators. 6. Ostia. 7. The Port of Rome.

Hardback. Condición: New.

Paperback. Condición: New. Sudoku is all the rage among readers and publishers. So why another book? Gerald Jenkins' lifetime of experience as a teacher and as a publisher has led him to produce something unique. Key features of this book that are unique: save teacher or puzzle-setter time through specially prepared self-explanatory photocopiables; succinct explanations provide information on the mathematics behind Sudoku puzzles - making that simple to explain; templates and explanations are provided to enable teachers, and puzzle-setters in maths clubs and other groups, with all that is required to set your own Sudoku puzzles; 32 photocopiable master puzzles of varying difficulty are provided, plus a blank for setting your own puzzles; and 2 further puzzles of greater difficulty are also provided.…

Paperback. Condición: New. The English Civil War, which broke out in 1642, divided counties, towns, even friends and families, as the nation pledged its allegiance either to the King or to Parliament. This book tells the story of the struggle by focusing on the key dramatic events and recreating them with stand-up scenes. These include King Charles coming to the House of Commons in person to arrest his enemies, the crucial battles of Lansdown Hill and Marston Moor, the eventual victory of the Roundheads under Oliver Cromwell and the execution of the King in 1649.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Covering the period from the 1630s to the 1690s, this book continues the style of the other two in the series. It follows the fortunes of a fashionable family through three generations. Clothes were vital to their success and in their diaries we gain an insight into the pleasures and problems of fashionable life during such troublesome times. Lucy Townsend writes about the lavish entertainments given in honour of Charles I. Her son comments on the Battle of Edgehill and her grandson deals with the after effects of the Great Fire of London. Never the main actors, the Townsends record their reactions to events played out before them and so let us see the concerns, preoccupations and clothes of the world of high fashion in the Stuart period.…

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Paperback. Condición: New. Martha the Mathemagician lives on Calculation Island (where numbers grow on trees) with her life-long best friend Oscar the Owl and her grandfather Max, who is an old and wise mathemagician. In this second book of the series, Martha uses her magic calculator for the first time. She and Oscar are transported to a dramatic argument between Knights about who will save the Princess from the dragon. Again she meets the Halving Ladybird to solve the problem she faces. Oh, and empowers the Princess while she's at it. Beautifully and amusingly illustrated, the story is designed to be read with children by parent or teacher. But it will also serve young readers well as they explore the world--especially as there are so few stories that have mathematics at their heart. Martha the Mathemagician will charm children and adults alike and make the world of numbers a comfortable and exciting place to be. Amos, Joh (ilustrador).…

Paperback. Condición: New. This intriguing collection of puzzles all start from the same simple idea, that of cutting and folding a square of paper marked with 25 smaller squares. You have to imagine the resulting shape in three dimensions after making the given set of cuts and folds. Then to match it with one of nine given views. The paper is colored differently on both sides and this provides further useful clues to help with visualising the possible solutions.…

Paperback. Condición: New. 1. City of Rome. 2. The Forum. 3. The Roman House. 4. The Army. 5. Gladiators. 6. Ostia. 7. The Port of Rome.

Paperback. Condición: New. Tarquin Popups are a special kind of do it yourself activity book. Not only is there the fun of making the scenes and seeing them popup but they are full of interesting information and ideas. This book contains six main scenes to make: Knossos, the Palace of Minos, the Lion Gate at Mycenae, the Battle of Salamis, the Golden Age of Athens, the Theatre, Alexander the Great and King Porus. There are a number of mini popups as well. Close the book and they fold away. Open it and they popup again. These vivid, colourful three dimensional scenes help to bring Ancient Civilisations to life in a way which no other kind of book can.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Each of 15 emojis represents a number to enter into the grid--but which one? Some values are given to you, and following simple rules, you have to work out the rest. Sometimes difficult, sometimes easier--but always interesting. A puzzling breath of fresh air.