title: Geometric Magic Squares: A Challenging New Twist Using Colored Shapes Instead of Numbers (Dover Recreational Math)
author:  Lee C.F. Sallows 
description: <DIV></DIV><DIV>London-born Lee Sallows has lived in Nijmegen in the Netherlands for the past 41 years and until recently worked as an electronics engineer for Radboud University. His longtime hobbies of computational wordplay and recreational mathematics have led to related articles as well as this collection of geometric magic squares. </DIV>
zlib_text: Discovering the “Magic”
  You can use the operations and 
  properties in this chapter to 
  complete a magic square.
   1A The Language of 
  Algebra 
   1-1 Variables and Expressions
   Lab Create a Table to Evaluate 
  Expressions
   1-2 Adding and Subtracting Real 
  Numbers
   1-3 Multiplying and Dividing Real 
  Numbers
   1-4 Powers and Exponents
   1-5 Roots and Real Numbers 
   1B The Tools of Algebra
   1-6 Order of Operations
   1-7 Simplifying Expressions
   1-8 Introduction to Functions
  KEYWORD: MA7 ChProj
  2
  Chapter 1
  Foundations for 
  Algebra
  • Solve problems with real numbers.
  • Make connections between verbal and 
  algebraic representations.
  
  Vocabulary
  Match each term on the left with a definition on the right.
   1. difference
   2. factor
   3. perimeter
   4. area
  A. the distance around a figure
  B. a number that is multiplied by another number to form a 
  product
  C. a result of division
  D. the number of square units a figure covers
  E. a result of subtraction
  Whole Number Operations
  Add, subtract, multiply, or di