Britney Spears is an American singer, which brought again to life teen pop in the late 1990's. She was born in Mississippi and she appeared on TV for the first time, when she was 11, and she competed in the Star Search contest and won. After this, she went on starring in Disney Channel, in "The New Mickey Mouse Club" series, from 1993 to 1994. In 1997 she released her first album, which was a great success, and the hit "Baby One More Time" had an amazing growing trend, and was sung by almost every teen girl.
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In time, she became a pop icon, and her next 3 albums were released and immediately went on first place in tops. When she released Blackout, in 2007, the decline started, because this has been her first album which didn't run on the first place at the debut. In 2008, December, her sixth album was released, and its name is "Circus".

Britney Spears sold over 83 million records,in the whole world, and she is ranked in the Forbes top too, as the 13th most powerful celebrity and she is on the 2nd place in the top of young musician's earnings. She was married to Kevin Federline, a dancer, with whom had two children, and in 2006, November, they divorced. This break-up caused Britney a massive emotional trauma, and her behavior became very weird in the next year.

She has grown-up in front of the whole world, and she got used with this fact, which also had a great influence on her personality. Her ascension and the decline too have happened in no more than five years. Her last album, "Greatest Hits: My Prerogative" sums up the first chapter in her career, but she says that "There will always be something new and challenging to tackle.", so she looks forward to the future and in the last period is very optimistic.

Since she is a celebrity, and many people adore her, her presence in the online games' industry was unavoidable, and many games have her as the central character. You can have fun with your favorite star in many games, which belong to various categories. I picked from Internet some Britney Spears games, and you can make an idea about the variety of games which she is involved in.

Britney Spears Paint is a game that allows you to paint an image of her with various tools and shapes. This game brings Britney much closer to her fans, and releases their creativity. You can also play another game, which is based on a soccer game, but has teams made of celebrities, and you can pick her as your player, and then you can see who's the best diva in music industry, and also in soccer.

The Match Britney Game is a classic match game, in which you have to match images with Britney and which comes in various sizes and shapes, and with thousands of pictures of Britney. Of course there are a lot of puzzles too, and you have to arrange the scrambled items in order to recreate her image. Some erotic inspired games appeared too, and the main purpose sounds like " get Britney naked", or solve the puzzle in which she appears almost naked.

A puzzle is an enigma which tests ingenuity and creativity of the solver. A simple puzzle requiers the player to place together the objects in the game, the puzzle pieces, in a specific way, a logical manner, to come up to the whole image, the desired shape, picture or solution. Puzzles are usually a form on fun, of entertainment, bu they can represent also serious logistical, statistical or math problems. There are some well known math problems, puzzles, which solved would mean very much for mathematics research world. The most important skill used in puzzles is patter recognition which, with the ability to create an order, make of the puzzle solvers very logical thinkers and good managers.
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It is well known that people who have higher inductive reasoning skills can be better at solving puzzles than the other people, who have average reasoning skills based on induction. The puzzles which are based on inquiry or discovery are to be solved faster by people who think deductive.

The number of puzzle types is very big, and the most well known types of puzzle are: construction puzzles, tiling puzzles, disentanglement puzzles, folding puzzles, combination, mechanical or transport puzzles. A very important type is jigsaw, which is preferred by many people and can be found in a lot of varieties and dimensions. The name of jigsaw puzzle comes from the initial way of creating them. The image was painted onto a flat rectangular piece of wood, and then it was cut into small pieces with a jigsaw. First person who commercialized them was the London mapmaker John Spilsburt, who was also an engraver.

Most of the puzzles made nowadays are made out of cardboard, because it is easier and cheaper in the manufacturing process, compared to wood or other hard materials. The enlarged photograph is printed on a paper, and then this print is glued on the cardboard before cutting it into pieces. Jigsaw puzzles can be found in 300-piece, 500, 750, 1000, 2000 and more than 2000 pieces boxes lately. The largest puzzle with commercial purpose had 24,000 pieces and it was 428 cm x 157 cm.

Since the broad propagation of Internet, a real niche appeared for commercializing puzzles, and there are also websites which offer the possibility of playing them online, for free.

alawar.com offers a RPG Game, Infinite Jigsaw Puzzle, which allows the player to change the difficulty level, from 24 pieces to 1040, and you can also enter you personal images as puzzle patterns. It has 100 preset levels but you can download more from the website. This game supports almost all well known graphic formats, like: TGA, TIFF, BMP, JPG, GIF or PNG.

Another cool puzzle game is Jigs@w Platinum Edition, which has a lot of options. It has a small library of images, and you can also use your own pictures for playing. Another interesting option is that you can modify the pieces' dimensions, and you can get from tens of pieces to thousands. It can be addictive, and it is a pretty cool game for jigsaw fans. The good parts of this game is that you can add your own images and that you can edit the settings like variety and the difficulty levels, but there are some negative parts too, which could be improved in the future versions: it has very few default puzzles, and for someone who doesn't want to see his face in the puzzle too, this is an inconvenience, the interface is a bit opaque and I think that this game is made for hardcore jigsaw players, who are advanced, old players of jigsaw.

You can try anytime one of the puzzles in the wide variety available on the Internet, and I think that you will find the right jigsaw puzzle for you, with the proper difficulty level, and with attractive images.

The days of the abacus have passed and pencil and worksheets were on a good trend in the last decades, but now, with the availability of the Internet and computers, there are more pleasant ways to learn and exercise math: online games. There are plenty of free games for children or students who want to learn math in a pleasant manner. In this article I gathered few funny math games I found online, and I think you will like them too.
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"Arcade"mic Skill Builders is a site which offers a lot of educational math games. They offer plenty of flash games, with high quality, which can be played also on the Wii. If you have a good Internet connection, you can connect your Wii to the website and you can play the games on your big TV display. Many flash games can be played in multiplayer mode, and they are based on the four basic mathematical operations: addition, substraction, multiplication and division. There are games for "advanced" players also, which include fractions are ratio. The huge variety of math games on "Arcade"mic Skill Builders website is great, and you can try games like Jet Ski, Alien Addition or Grand Prix for fun, or let your children play them, because their educational value is unlimited.

Coolmath-games.com is also a huge resource of online math games, and it covers a wide range of mathematical games. You can find there java&flash games, and HTML based games also. They are all free, and they offer a lot of games, for all ages, and with various difficulty level. For example, there is a game which offers you the opportunity to be an entrepreneur and to run you own coffee shop and obtain profit and manage it. This game is named Coffee Shop and it is similar to Lemonade Stand game, and both can be found on Cool Math games website.

Another cool math games website is Sheppard Software, and this site brings out a lot of flash games, which are very funny, and I am sure that anyone can find a game to fit his/her preferences. Just to name few games on this site, I would like to mention: Early Math, Fractions, Dollars&Cents, Place Values or Basic&Mixed Operations.