Spacemazes is a 3D Maze book that teaches math informally while children are
having fun doing this new type of maze(ages6-12). Many children who like mazes will not put the book down until they have finished. Thus parents do not have to help them with every step. It is also good training for those have learning disabilities because it helps them practice moving in 3 dimensions.

Review of Spacemazes

Are you looking for ways to help your child with mathematics? Do you like a challenge that is engaging and fun? My grandchildren and I just completed the final maze in Spacemazes by Aaron and Peter Landesman. Our family played and worked together to solve many of the mazes in this excellent collection.

Spacemazes provided our family with opportunities to think of solutions, and to talk with one another about possibilities, in order to ultimately find our way "home" in each of the challenges in this wonderful collection of multidimensional mazes.

Solving the puzzles in Spacemazes helped us learn about coordinates, geometry, operations, positive and negative numbers, and other number systems in an informal way. The more mazes we tried, the better we became at thinking about and moving in three-dimensional space.

We learned to persist, to cooperate, and support one another’s ideas as we moved from simpler to more difficult mazes. We also created mazes of our own for others to solve. And, while I don’t recommend that you peek, Spacemazes also provides solutions.

Submitted by
Grace D. Coates
Director, FAMILY MATH
University of California at Berkeley