Chinese Brain Twisters
Chinese Brain Twisters

Author: Baifang

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 1620459582

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A smart way to teach children to think logically and creatively One of the most precious gifts you can offer a child is a sharp mind. The 56 puzzles in this delightful collection were passed down through generations of Chinese families who wanted their children to develop concentration and mental agility. Baifang spent hours enjoying them with her family and friends as she was growing up in the north of China. Now living in San Francisco, Baifang is passing them on to her own children and to families everywhere. Each puzzle inspires clear, precise, and inventive thinking. Some teach math concepts; others involve spatial relationships and visualization. All of them have fascinating solutions and help improve memory and problem-solving skills. An inexhaustible source of challenging fun, these are mental calisthenics for stimulating interaction between lively minds from ages 8 to 80.

More Chinese Brain Twisters
More Chinese Brain Twisters

Author: Baifang

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Published: 2007-08-24

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 0470256192

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Get your family's brains going with 57 more creative calisthenics for the mind In China, for centuries it has been acknowledged that early childhood training supports lifelong intellectual growth. For generations, parents have taught their children "brain games"--delightful amusements that challenge the intellects of young people while appealing to their senses of fun and play. While growing up in China, Baifang learned scores of such games that both challenged and intrigued her. Now she shares 57 new stick-puzzle, number, and shape games for children and parents everywhere to share and enjoy. A terrific way to stimulate parent-child interaction, these quick and challenging puzzles and brain teasers enhance creative capacity and logic, fostering problem-solving skills and mathematical awareness. Baifang came to the United States from China in 1977 and earned a degree in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. Since then, she has worked on various media and cultural exchange programs with China. She is also the author of Chinese Brain Twisters.

Chinese Brain Twisters
Chinese Brain Twisters

Author: Baifang

Publisher: Wiley

Published: 1994-01-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780471595052

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A smart way to teach children to think logically and creatively One of the most precious gifts you can offer a child is a sharp mind. The 56 puzzles in this delightful collection were passed down through generations of Chinese families who wanted their children to develop concentration and mental agility. Baifang spent hours enjoying them with her family and friends as she was growing up in the north of China. Now living in San Francisco, Baifang is passing them on to her own children and to families everywhere. Each puzzle inspires clear, precise, and inventive thinking. Some teach math concepts; others involve spatial relationships and visualization. All of them have fascinating solutions and help improve memory and problem-solving skills. An inexhaustible source of challenging fun, these are mental calisthenics for stimulating interaction between lively minds from ages 8 to 80.

Chinese Brain Twisterxs
Chinese Brain Twisterxs

Author: Baifang

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780760728857

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Originally published as Chinese Brain Twisters and More Chinese Brain Twisters.

Ancient Civilizations Brain Teasers
Ancient Civilizations Brain Teasers

Author: Michelle Breyer

Publisher: Teacher Created Resources

Published: 1998-03

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 1576902153

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Exercises cover Mesopotamia and the Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, and China.

Untying the Knot
Untying the Knot

Author: Galit Hasan-Rokem

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 0195108566

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This book collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture. Hasan-Rokem and Shulman have drawn these essays from a variety of cultural perspectives and disciplines; linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, and religion and literature scholars consider riddling practices in Hebrew, Finnish, Indian languages, Chinese, and classical Greek. The authors seek to understand the peculiar expressive power of the riddle, and the cultural logic of its particular uses; they scrutinize the riddle's logical structure and linguistic strategies, as well as its affinity to neighboring genres such as enigmas, puzzles, oracular prophecy, proverbs, and dreams. In this way, they begin to answer how riddles relate to the conceptual structures of a particular culture, and how they come to represent a culture's cosmology or cognitive map of the world. More importantly, these essays reveal the human need for symbolic ordering--riddles being one such form of cultural ritual.

Brain Games
Brain Games

Author: Stephanie Drimmer

Publisher: National Geographic Kids

Published: 2020-04-02

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1426336756

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Get ready to train your brain with superfun activities, mystifying mazes, and cryptic codes. You will uncover hidden messages, hack your mind and learn how to harness your creative brain with imagination-boosting challenges. -- From back cover.

Badger Brain Twisters
Badger Brain Twisters

Author: Kelly Whitt

Publisher: Big Earth Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9781931599979

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What better companion on your next Wisconsin road trip than this collection of puzzles, games, and trivia teasers! Learn about the Badger State's history, natural wonders, folklore, flora, and fauna as you flex your mental skills. Hours of fun for puzzle lovers and trivia fanatics of every age!

Wisdom Chi Kung
Wisdom Chi Kung

Author: Mantak Chia

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-06-24

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1594778396

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Taoist meditation practices for increasing and maintaining mental awareness, memory, and clarity • Details techniques to increase the level of chi energy in the brain • Explains how to synchronize the left and right brain by activating the body’s energetic potentials • Shows that by emptying the mind there is more energy to heal the body Wisdom Chi Kung teaches practitioners how to revitalize the brain: to repair function, increase memory, and expand capacity. Every day we use up so much of our brain’s capacity to function that we have very little left at the end of the day. By thinking or worrying too much, the brain can use up to 80 percent of the body’s entire energy reserve. Learning to stop the brain, to empty the mind from the ceaseless chatter of the “monkey mind,” and then recharge it with chi energy can increase our mental capacity, focus, and clarity. Using the Inner Smile meditation technique, practitioners learn how to recharge chi energy for the brain in a form that is most useful. Practitioners smile and empty the mind into the lower tan tien and the organs. The organs then transform this chi energy. When the mind is empty, the energy transformed by the organs is sent back to the brain to revitalize it. This process synchronizes the left and right brain by activating and tapping in to the body’s energetic potentials. As the mind continues to empty, receive, and also enhance the transformed chi energy, it is able to open itself to connect with universal chi energies and fill the body with enhanced life force.