| Many of those who read this book will be interested in the puzzles and investigations for their own sake. Everyone will, I trust, find some things that are new - perhaps even refreshing, And I hope that those who teach mathematics win find the collection especially useful. The problems will challenge and stimulate able youngsters in a way which will make them think. The content, style, layout, and sequencing of the material have been chosen to meet, as far as seems possible, the needs of the individual reader, working alone. But it is not like an ordinary text, and the reader should not expect to work steadily through from beginning to end. It is a book you can begin at one age and pick up again years later.
Many of the problems and ideas can be, and have been, used with wider ability groups. Teachers will want to pick and choose (and adapt!) those problems, investigations, or sections which they judge to be suitable for use with whole classes. |
