Lorayne, Harry. How to Perform Feats of Mathematical Wizardry.

New
York: Harry Lorayne, 2006. This book is written for magicians who wish to
amaze their audiences with amazing feats of mind and other mathematically
based tricks.

Sticker, Henry. How to Calculate Quickly. New York: Dover Publications,

1955. A collection of 383 groups of problems (literally, more than 9000
problems) designed to give you practice at doing mental arithmetic. It’s
mostly problems without a lot of exposition. If you are looking for an
inexpensive Dover book, the book by Kelly is superior.

Stoddard, Edward. Speed Mathematics Simpli¿ed. New York: Dover

Publications, 1994 (1965). This book takes a radically different approach
from all the other books and is motivated by the system for using a manual
abacus. For example, to add 8 to a number, subtract 2, then add 10. This idea
eliminates the need for nearly half of the addition table and shows new ways
to represent addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems,
all done from left to right. It’s an interesting approach that some might
appreciate, but the methods taught in the Stoddard book are very different
from the ones taught in this course.

Internet resources:

Art of Problem Solving. www.ArtOfProblemSolving.com. Publisher of

outstanding mathematics books (from algebra to calculus) aimed at high-
ability students and adults, AoPS also offers online classes and an online
community for students, parents, and teachers to share ideas.

DoerÀer, Ronald. www.myreckonings.com/wordpress/. Lost arts in the

mathematical sciences, including several interesting pages about the history
and techniques of lightning calculators.

Mathematical Association of America. www.maa.org. The premier

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organization in the United States dedicated to the effective communication

of mathematics. Publisher of hundreds of interesting mathematics books,
particularly at the college level.

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