Stanley, Bernard: Fun With Figures ©1950 Bernard Stanley, Universal Publications Ltd., London Softcover, saddle-stitched, 5.5x8.5", 72 pages |
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Comments: Puzzles and tricks
Contents (from book ToC, some page numbers estimated):
9 Odd and Even
10 Round the Clock
11 Which Word?
13 In Case You Have Forgotten Your Tables
14 Any Figures You Like
15 Queer Multiplication
17 A Matter Of Notation
17 Your Favourite Figure
19 Mysterious Addition And Subtraction
20 Ten, Eighty-Nine
21 Forty-Five
21 One To Nine
22 One To Nine Again
23 Turning Them Round
25 Thirty-Seven
26 Long Measure
27 Quick Change
28 Juggling With Figures
30 Uncanny Nine
31 142857
32 It’s Always Right
33 Think Of Three Figures
34 What's His Age?
34 A Matter Of Time
35 Half And Half
36 A.D.
36 The Four Tarts
37 A Question of Points
37 It's Easy
37 To Come To One
38 Change For A Shilling
38 The Family Outing
40 Weeds
41 All For Threepence
41 Measuring The Milk
42 More Milk Measuring
42 Not Milk This Time
43 No. 10
43 A Gargain
44 The Omnibus Route
45 How Many Subscribed?
46 Alphabetic Additio
47 Multiplication By Letters
48 50 More Letters
49 A Tragedy Averted
50 Adding Letters
52 Eight Fifteens
53 Filing In The Squares
53 Fillin In The Circles
54 Thirty-Six Threes
54 Mysterious Spending
55 A Double
56 Some Farthings
57 At The Annual Dinner
58 The Two Letter
59 The Car That Failed To Stop
60 One Over
60 Twenty
61 A Matter Of Tips
61 Threes
62 Some Fish
63 Gillian And Mary
63 A Hart Nut
64 Shell Eggs
65 Ye Olde Castle
66 Tickets Please