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New Maze Books for Gifted Children

Sunday, January 3, 2010


SPACEMAZES

NEW 3D MAZES Great Gift for Maze Lovers

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FORSMART KIDS OF AGES 6-12
EXPLORE SPACE IN SPACEMAZES
*ENTERTAINING
*EDUCATIONAL
*MATHEMATICAL

Spacemazes takes advantage of children’s natural desire to learn. While they explore the exciting new mazes, they acquire mathematical skills that will help them do well on aptitude tests and enable them to become better Doctors, Chemists or Engineers.Examples of the 3 dimensional maze follow the reviews.





















REVIEW OF THE BOOK SPACEMAZES
Are you looking for ways to help your child with mathematics? Do you like a challenge that is engaging and fun? My grandchildren and I just completed the final maze in Spacemazes by Aaron and Peter Landesman. Our family played and worked together to solve many of the mazes in this excellent collection.
Spacemazes provided our family with opportunities to think of solutions, and to talk with one another about possibilities, in order to ultimately find our way “home” in each of the challenges in this wonderful collection of multidimensional mazes.
Solving the puzzles in Spacemazes helped us learn about coordinates, geometry, operations, positive and negative numbers, and other number systems in an informal way. The more mazes we tried, the better we became at thinking about and moving in three-dimensional space.
We learned to persist, to cooperate, and support one another’s ideas as we moved from simpler to more difficult mazes. We also created mazes of our own for others to solve. And, while I don’t recommend that you peek, Spacemazes also provides solutions.
Submitted by
Grace D. CoatesDirector,
FAMILY MATH
University of California at Berkeley































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Preface:
Spacemazes takes advantage of children’s natural desire to learn. While they explore the exciting new mazes, they acquire mathematical skills. Satisfied by every twist and turn, your child will learn how to move in 3 dimensional space.Babies first learn how to crawl around the floor in 2 dimensions. As they explore, their curiosity leads them to venture toward the edge of a bed or sofa where they learn about the 3rd dimension(height). As babies grow into toddlers and young children, they learn to climb, jump, kick a soccer ball up into the air, or dive into a pool of deep water and gradually develop an intuition about moving in 3 dimensions. Spacemazes helps children learn useful skills that airplane pilots must know in order to fly, that submarine commanders and space captains must know in order to steer a ship in three dimensions, that doctors and biologists must know in order to understand the 3-dimensional pathways that chemicals travel in the body, and that visitors to New York City must know in order find their way through Grand Central Terminal, the Port Authority Bus Terminal or Macy’s six-story store.Aaron is an ordinary child who loves mazes. Looking for new challenges, he and his Daddy, Peter, developed the 3 dimensional mazes shown in this book. While Aaron was playing with mazes, his Dad, a mathematics teacher, was helping his son learn math. You can recreate the same enjoyable experiences when you read this book with your child: mazes + math = fun.In this book, one learns about 3-dimensional space as well as related elementary mathematical concepts such as 3-dimensional size, coordinates, negative numbers and base 2 arithmetic. Introducing these ideas to children, when in pre-school and the early elementary grades, will enable them to understand these concepts more fully when they are formally presented at a later stage in school. Mathematics is a language with a specialized vocabulary that should be introduced to children at as early an age as possible. One’s understanding of mathematical concepts grows over time through repeated exposure.Aaron and Peter

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction to Mazes 5
Chapter 2 Introduction to 3 Dimensional Mazes
Chapter 3 Mazes Without Helping Ladders
Chapter 4 The Size of a Maze
Chapter 5 4 by 4 by 3 Mazes
Chapter 6 Number Mazes
Chapter 7 6 by 4 by 3 Mazes
Chapter 8 Subtraction Number Mazes
Chapter 9 4 by 4 by 4 Mazes
Chapter 10 Negative Number Mazes
Chapter 11 6 by 4 by 4 Mazes
Chapter 12 Coordinates in 3 Dimensions
Chapter 13 8 by 4 by 5 Mazes 1 (Practicing coordinates)
Chapter 14 3 by 3 by 3 by 2 Mazes (The only 4 dimensional maze in print)

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Number Mazes for Children

Number Mazes for Children

Practice Arithmetic with Mazes
Design your own
Develope a feeling for numbers


To buy this maze book Spacemazes click here
Great Childrens Mazes
Spacemazes is a great maze book.
To go to the main page New Maze Books for Gifted Kids click here


Addition Mazes, another type of maze for children 

Number mazes are mathematical puzzles which enhance children's basic understanding
of mathematics as they solve and explore mazes. The Number mazes consist of interesting puzzles that must be solved by using knowledge of addition, subtraction and signed numbers.
In the book Space Mazes, the challenging mazes gradually become more difficult and are juxtaposed with new exicting 3d mazes .(See this post for examples of the 3d mazes which can be viewed as examples of counting in 3 dimentions.) They are all number puzzles or math puzzles.
The Number Mazes can be Addition mazes, Subtraction mazes and
signed number mazes or negative number mazes.

In fact, children find the new creative puzzles so engrossing that they do not willingly
put the book down. The book Spacemazes is an excellent gift if you are going on a long car ride or plane trip. Your child will be engrossed in Spacemazes. It is a wonderful birthday gift, holiday gift or
Chistmas gift.
See a review here or here.

Directions for the Addition Mazes below are
1. Start at the number on the left,
2. find the path through the maze the takes the number on the left to the number
on the right by adding to the number on the left any number that you pass in the maze.
3. End at the number on the right.

These are easy Addition Mazes. The maze puzzles (maze games) become progressively more challeging in the maze book for children, Spacemazes, available at Amazon.







    1



    1

 
END
  3

START
      1


     2


    3





The solution is to take the path across the top. Start at 1 on the left. Go though the number 1 and then go through the next number 1. End at the number 3 on the left  3= 1+1+1.



What is different in the Number Maze below?

What is the new path through the Maze?








    1



    1

 
END
  4

START
      1


     2


    3








See the bottom of the next page for the solution.
Kids love this Kids maze.
Solution to the last Number Maze is:

 





    1



    1

 
END
  4
START
      1


     2


    3


                     Solution:           1 + 2 + 1 = 4

Draw a line from 1 at the start, through 2, go up through the , end at 4.

Subraction Mazes for Kids





What is more interesting:  Number Mazes with subtraction or Number Mazes with addition.


Start at START.  End at END.






    3



    2

 
END
  3

START
      3


   -2


   -1




The solution is the path from 3 through -2 through 2 to 3.

 





    3



    2

 
END
  3
START
      3


   -2


   -1


                                               3 – 2 + 2 = 3  


Children learn to add negative numbers as part of the mathematics learned in this educational book.
What is 2 – 2  = ?

To by this maze book Spacemazes click here
Great Childrens Mazes
Spacemazes is a great maze book.
To go to the main page New Maze Books for Gifted Kids click here
Negative Number Mazes for Children

These are easy Negative Number Mazes. The maze puzzles (maze games) become progressively more challeging in the maze book for children, Spacemazes. (Mazes in Space)
Do these for practice before going on to more difficult ones.


  
       -2

END
  -5
 
      START
            -3

     
       2


Solution to the childrens maze is -3+(-2)= -5



  
       -2

END
  -1
 
      START
            -3

     
       2



Solution to the childrens maze is  -3+(+2)= -1



  
       4

END
  7
 
      START
             3

     
       -4



Solution to the childrens maze is  3+ 4= 7



  
       4

END
  -1
 
      START
             3

     
       -4



 Solution to the childrens maze is  3+(-4)= -1

 

Design your own number maze.

These are the best mazes for kids.

The number mazes are combined with 3d mazes in the book Spacemazes.

To by this maze book Spacemazes click here
amazon

Great Childrens Mazes
Spacemazes is a great maze book. It is full of maze puzzles and maze puzzles for kids. You will be amazed at the mazes.

To go to the main page New Maze Books for Gifted Kids click here