Gardeners books and sci-am columns are an amazing resource to get kids and teens interested in math.
In the present time, I find Simon Singh’s parallel.co.uk has been doing interesting work holding weekly math circles for kids - deftly engaging kids with mathematical ideas. I attend a circle with my 9 yo every Sunday.
https://archive.is/hyF0u
Another fantastic resource is Boris Kordemsky's book The Moscow Puzzles:
https://www.amazon.com/Moscow-Puzzles-Mathematical-Recreatio...
I think it was this book where I first saw the puzzle:
Such a simple puzzle with to (then) me such depth of knowledge to uncover the answer.Gardeners books and sci-am columns are an amazing resource to get kids and teens interested in math.
In the present time, I find Simon Singh’s parallel.co.uk has been doing interesting work holding weekly math circles for kids - deftly engaging kids with mathematical ideas. I attend a circle with my 9 yo every Sunday.
I'm curious what the age range is? My son is 8.
His annotated Alice in Wonderland is really nice, too.
All of his Scientific American articles were available as a CD I have. Not sure if they are online yet.
As a youngster they were a source of wonder to me.
What is this CD? I like old compilations.
Edit: found it, it's called "Martin Gardner s Mathematical Games: The Entire Collection of His Scientific American Columns"
Recreational math and games boosted both computing and science.
Unix was born to play games. And Curses was born for Rogue.