Math Games with Bad Drawings

“So good, I’m not even jealous…. It’s just stellar.”–Dan Finkel, co-creator of the award-winning games Prime Climb and Tiny Polka Dot“A beautifully produced compendium of maths games that is destined to be a classic of popular maths literature.”–Alex Bellos, The Guardian

“Ben Orlin is such an interesting thinker, he is a wonderful mix of informed, funny and creative. This book is a delight, pages and pages of engaging math games. I will carry this with me everywhere, and my mathematical thinking will be better because of it.”

“I’m loving this math book with puzzles. Such a gentle, playful way to teach these abstract concepts. Like a pill pocket for math!”

“Mathematicians keep insisting that math is fun, but most people who have taken a math class might be skeptical. Ben Orlin’s new book of mathematical games reveals where the fun has been lurking all along. The games themselves are easy to learn, promise hours of enjoyment, and will introduce you to some pretty advanced concepts along the way.”

Ben Orlin is the author of Math with Bad Drawings (as well as the blog of the same name) and Change is the Only Constant. His writing on math and education has appeared in The Atlantic, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, Vox, and Popular Science. He has taught middle and high school mathematics and has spoken about math and education at colleges and universities across the United States. He lives with his wife and daughter in St. Paul, Minnesota.