Tarquin publications gb (396 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: New. A classic title that has been used to teach hundreds of thousands - possibly millions - of students over the years! This book is intended to act as an encouragement for children to learn their tables. On every page there are diagrams made up of small numbered areas. If that number will divide by the number being studied, then the area has to be colored. When all the target areas of a particular puzzle are colored, then the hidden picture is revealed. There are also other charts and hundred squares to colour and the book is then rounded off with a target test to confirm the progress being made.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Children love making these beautiful shapes which are such fun to decorate. Each model is printed on crisp white paper ready to cut out and glue together. There are at least twelve hours of enjoyment in each book and the finished models make a fine collection. There are plenty of suggestions and ideas for coloring and decorating.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Children love making these beautiful shapes which are such fun to decorate. Each model is printed on crisp white paper ready to cut out and glue together. There are at least twelve hours of enjoyment in this book and the finished models make a fine collection. There are plenty of suggestions and ideas for coloring and decorating.Make Shapes 2 has slightly more complex models than Make Shapes 1.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A dot-to-dot book with a difference - for anyone who can use a ruler. Using a ruler, draw a straight line between the numbered dots, connecting them in sequence, and watch how the mind assembles the series of lines to create an illusion of a curve, or curves. If you use a pencil to complete the puzzle in the first instance, you can correct any mistakes, then ink in the lines for the final art. The book nourishes the mind as well as the senses though - the "curve stitching" effects have long fascinated mathematicians and the book will provide mathematics teachers and parents with something worthwhile with which to occupy students profitably. Teacher and parent notes are provided on how to use the book.Ultimately though, this is book for those who like to create and who like visual illusions. Hours of fun.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Tarquin Popups are a special kind of do it yourself activity book. Not only is there the fun of making the scenes and seeing them popup but they are full of interesting information and ideas. This book contains six main scenes to make: Knossos, the Palace of Minos, the Lion Gate at Mycenae, the Battle of Salamis, the Golden Age of Athens, the Theatre, Alexander the Great and King Porus. There are a number of mini popups as well. Close the book and they fold away. Open it and they popup again. These vivid, colourful three dimensional scenes help to bring Ancient Civilisations to life in a way which no other kind of book can.…

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New. This beautiful model to cut out and glue together has twelve sharp spikes emerging from pentagonal cups and forming ten pairs of parallel planes, each in a different colour.None of these ten colours occurs more than once on any spike or cup.When completed, the polyhedron rests on a horizontal surface on just three spikes.Simple and logical instructions followed carefully yield extraordinary results.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Each of 15 emojis represents a number to enter into the grid--but which one? Some values are given to you (more than in the tougher companion volume), and following simple rules, you have to work out the rest.Les Page has devised some ingenious and challenging new puzzles for anyone who enjoys Sudoku, KenKen, Train Tracks, and similar puzzles. A puzzling breath of fresh air.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. This collection of sixteen clever puzzle pictures offers lots of practice in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. For the earlier puzzles, all the numbers are whole numbers. After that they include fractions, decimals, percentages and ratios. It offers a visual and imaginative approach to getting more practice and is called Arithmetic Arithmetic. because there are two different sets of sums for each of the pictures. Choose the easier set, the harder set or if you wish, both.…

Mixed Media Product. Condizione: New. An alphabet book with charming surprises is the best way to describe this collection of cunning pictures. Each contains special hidden images which are only revealed by using the card mirror provided. Find just the right place to put the mirror and the mad pianist becomes an astronomer looking at the moon. An explorer in the dessert becomes the pyramids he is looking for and an octopus becomes a bunch of flowers. A card mirror with special strand is included.Perfect for new readers, and perfect for younger children to explore the visual while being read the "puzzle" they have to solve with the mirror.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A classic title that has been used to teach hundreds of thousands - possibly millions - of students over the years! This book is intended to act as an encouragement for children to learn their tables. On every page there are diagrams made up of small numbered areas. If that number will divide by the number being studied, then the area has to be colored. When all the target areas of a particular puzzle are colored, then the hidden picture is revealed. There are also other charts and hundred squares to colour and the book is then rounded off with a target test to confirm the progress being made.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Each of 15 letters represents a number to enter into the Nightmare Blocks grid--but which one? Some values are given to you, and following simple rules, you have to work out the rest. Les Page has devised some ingenious and challenging new puzzles for anyone who enjoys Sudoku, KenKen, Train Tracks, and similar puzzles. A puzzling breath of fresh air.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Children love making these beautiful shapes which are such fun to decorate. Each model is printed on crisp white paper ready to cut out and glue together. There are at least twelve hours of enjoyment in each book and the finished models make a fine collection. There are plenty of suggestions and ideas for coloring and decorating.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. This intriguing collection of puzzles all start from the same simple idea, that of cutting and folding a square of paper marked with 25 smaller squares. You have to imagine the resulting shape in three dimensions after making the given set of cuts and folds. Then to match it with one of nine given views. The paper is colored differently on both sides and this provides further useful clues to help with visualising the possible solutions.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Each of 15 letters represents a number to enter into the Nightmare Blocks grid--but which one? Some values are given to you, and following simple rules, you have to work out the rest. Les Page has devised some ingenious and challenging new puzzles for anyone who enjoys Sudoku, KenKen, Train Tracks, and similar puzzles. Sometimes difficult, sometimes easier--but always interesting.…

Mixed Media Product. Condizione: New. A card mirror is the key to this amazing exploration of visual and verbal connections. Each of the pictures can be transformed by means of the mirror into a pair of opposites. Concepts like "open and shut," "tidy and untidy," "ancient and modern" are each illustrated by placing the mirror in just the right places on what seem to be perfectly normal pictures. Much ingenuity has gone into creating these pictures and Duncan Birmingham's work will give great delight to children of 5 and well upwards. Probably many adults too.…

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New. This beautiful model to cut out and glue together is the result of arranging five interpenetrating cubes in a highly symmetrical way Each cube is printed in its own colour and so it is easy to see that exactly two cubes meet at every vertex and that there are twelve surfaces defining each face of each cube. There is a strong internal frame and multiple divisions in the golden ratio to discover.Simple and logical instructions followed carefully yield extraordinary results.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Each of 15 emojis represents a number to enter into the grid--but which one? Some values are given to you, and following simple rules, you have to work out the rest. Sometimes difficult, sometimes easier--but always interesting. A puzzling breath of fresh air.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Sudoku is all the rage among readers and publishers. So why another book? Gerald Jenkins' lifetime of experience as a teacher and as a publisher has led him to produce something unique. Key features of this book that are unique: save teacher or puzzle-setter time through specially prepared self-explanatory photocopiables; succinct explanations provide information on the mathematics behind Sudoku puzzles - making that simple to explain; templates and explanations are provided to enable teachers, and puzzle-setters in maths clubs and other groups, with all that is required to set your own Sudoku puzzles; 32 photocopiable master puzzles of varying difficulty are provided, plus a blank for setting your own puzzles; and 2 further puzzles of greater difficulty are also provided.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. The English Civil War, which broke out in 1642, divided counties, towns, even friends and families, as the nation pledged its allegiance either to the King or to Parliament. This book tells the story of the struggle by focusing on the key dramatic events and recreating them with stand-up scenes. These include King Charles coming to the House of Commons in person to arrest his enemies, the crucial battles of Lansdown Hill and Marston Moor, the eventual victory of the Roundheads under Oliver Cromwell and the execution of the King in 1649.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Covering the period from the 1630s to the 1690s, this book continues the style of the other two in the series. It follows the fortunes of a fashionable family through three generations. Clothes were vital to their success and in their diaries we gain an insight into the pleasures and problems of fashionable life during such troublesome times. Lucy Townsend writes about the lavish entertainments given in honour of Charles I. Her son comments on the Battle of Edgehill and her grandson deals with the after effects of the Great Fire of London. Never the main actors, the Townsends record their reactions to events played out before them and so let us see the concerns, preoccupations and clothes of the world of high fashion in the Stuart period.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Children love making these beautiful shapes which are such fun to decorate. Each model is printed on crisp white paper ready to cut out and glue together. There are at least twelve hours of enjoyment in this book and the finished models make a fine collection. There are plenty of suggestions and ideas for coloring and decorating.Make Shapes 2 has slightly more complex models than Make Shapes 1.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. 1. City of Rome. 2. The Forum. 3. The Roman House. 4. The Army. 5. Gladiators. 6. Ostia. 7. The Port of Rome.

Hardback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New. This intriguing collection of puzzles all start from the same simple idea, that of cutting and folding a square of paper marked with 25 smaller squares. You have to imagine the resulting shape in three dimensions after making the given set of cuts and folds. Then to match it with one of nine given views. The paper is colored differently on both sides and this provides further useful clues to help with visualising the possible solutions.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. 1. City of Rome. 2. The Forum. 3. The Roman House. 4. The Army. 5. Gladiators. 6. Ostia. 7. The Port of Rome.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Tarquin Popups are a special kind of do it yourself activity book. Not only is there the fun of making the scenes and seeing them popup but they are full of interesting information and ideas. This book contains six main scenes to make: Knossos, the Palace of Minos, the Lion Gate at Mycenae, the Battle of Salamis, the Golden Age of Athens, the Theatre, Alexander the Great and King Porus. There are a number of mini popups as well. Close the book and they fold away. Open it and they popup again. These vivid, colourful three dimensional scenes help to bring Ancient Civilisations to life in a way which no other kind of book can.…

Mixed Media Product. Condizione: New. A card mirror is the key to this amazing exploration of visual and verbal connections. Each of the pictures can be transformed by means of the mirror into a pair of opposites. Concepts like "open and shut," "tidy and untidy," "ancient and modern" are each illustrated by placing the mirror in just the right places on what seem to be perfectly normal pictures. Much ingenuity has gone into creating these pictures and Duncan Birmingham's work will give great delight to children of 5 and well upwards. Probably many adults too.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Following the pattern of her previous book, this second collection by Hilary McElderry offers new pictures to color and further opportunity and encouragement for children to learn and practise their multiplication tables. It is intended to act as an encouragement for children to learn their tables. On every page there are diagrams made up of small numbered areas. If that number will divide by the number being studied, then the area has to be colored or shaded. When all the target areas of a particular puzzle are colored, then the hidden picture is revealed. There are also other charts and hundred squares to color and the book is then rounded off with a target test to confirm the progress being made.…