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How long does it take to read Problem-solving Strategies?

Arthur Engel

Problem-solving Strategies by Arthur Engel takes about 7 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 7 hours 23 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1998. 403 pages, about 110,825 words.

15 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 12 hours 19 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 7 hours 23 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 37 minutes

The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Problem-Solving Strategies is a unique collection of competition problems from over twenty major national and international mathematical competitions for high school students. The discussion of problem-solving strategies is extensive. It is written for trainers and participants of contests of all levels up to the highest level: IMO, Tournament of the Towns, and the noncalculus parts of the Putnam competition. It will appeal to high school teachers conducting a mathematics club who need a range of simple to complex problems and to those instructors wishing to pose a "problem of the week," "problem of the month," and "research problem of the year" to their students, thus bringing a creative atmosphere into their classrooms with continuous discussions of mathematical problems. This volume is a must-have for instructors wishing to enrich their teaching with some interesting nonroutine problems and for individuals who are just interested in solving difficult and challenging problems.

Subjects: Problem solving, Mathematics, History & Philosophy, Résolution de problème

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