Chinese Brain Twisters
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by Liu Baifang
Chinese Brain Twisters SYNOPSIS Grow your family's thinking powers with the classic puzzles in Chinese Brain Twisters. In 113 fascinating twisters, children and parents alike can build problem-solving skills while tackling traditional number, shape, and stick form mind benders that have delighted Chinese families for generations.
Chinese parents have long used these brain teasers to develop the intellectual capacities of even their youngest children. Now author Liu Baifang taps into that tradition and her own upbringing to share these games and their creative bounty with everyone.
Divided into three basic categories—Sticks and Shapes, sticks and Numbers, and Words and Numbers—these Chinese Brain Twisters range from simple to complex, whimsical to startling. All can be solved with the right combination of spatial reasoning, mathematical agility, and visualization techniques. Together they sharpen various thinking skills, including mathematical facility, visualization of spatial relationships, and logical reasoning.
A chinese proverb proclaims, "Things learned during childhood remain with one forever". Whatever your age, the mental gymnastics of these classic brain twisters will delight, amuse, and enrich. You too can learn how to turn a hexagon into two parallelograms and solve the riddle of the Bandit King and the Elephant. All you need are the secrets in Chinese Brain Twisters.
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