Archimedes' journal

Puzzles are among the most popular forms of recreational maths and games. Just a little bit of good sense and an inquisitive mind are all you need to solve them... Puzzles capture people's attention as curiosity is a natural human propensity and indeed they are intriguing, challenging and fun as well!
Puzzles enhance visuo-spatial skills and critical thinking. As educational manipulatives, puzzles develop the capacity to redefine a problem and the will to persevere. Puzzles are not closed problem, they can always be improved and generate a myriad of variants and what's more they don't require batteries, they are just powered by our brain cells!

48 pages, all in color! In English and in French.

Mental and creative activities for puzzle enthusiasts, hobbyists, teachers, trainers and facilitators: puzzles - paradoxes - optical illusions - tessellations - geometric dissections - tangrams - mazes - curiosities...
ARCHIMEDES is an interactive review devoted to entertaining & involving its readers with puzzles, recreational mathematics and visual creativity. This journal is published for an audience without a specific math background. Each issue covers a broad range of mental and hands-on activities for the reader to enjoy, including a profile of prominent trailblazers in the field of visual creativity.

Enjoy discovering new applications!
ARCHIMEDES contains high-quality images for resource use, it offers original, large illustrations or patterns that the reader may reproduce or photocopy for classroom projects/activities, workshops, training courses or just for fun... The accompanying text is short, precise and clear. ARCHIMEDES combines the fascination of logic with the beauty of artistic design. In short, ARCHIMEDES is both an idea and a picture library!

Topics and columns
ARCHIMEDES covers:
Popular maths, topological and mechanical puzzles, geometric dissections and tessellations, geometric constructions, paradoxes and mind bogglers, optical illusions, impossible objects, labyrinths and mazes, ambigrams, mental 'magic' tricks, curiosities...
Each issue features:
• 7 complete mechanical puzzles to make, (see 1 example below)
• interactive optical illusions, to discover and to experiment with,
• a lot of incredible Puzzles to solve...
• and a Logic contest with prizes to win...