Full Description
This book provides insights drawn from the authors' extensive experience in teaching Puzzle-based Learning. Practical advice is provided for teachers and lecturers evaluating a range of different formats for varying class sizes. Features: suggests numerous entertaining puzzles designed to motivate students to think about framing and solving unstructured problems; discusses models for student engagement, setting up puzzle clubs, hosting a puzzle competition, and warm-up activities; presents an overview of effective teaching approaches used in Puzzle-based Learning, covering a variety of class activities, assignment settings and assessment strategies; examines the issues involved in framing a problem and reviews a range of problem-solving strategies; contains tips for teachers and notes on common student pitfalls throughout the text; provides a collection of puzzle sets for use during a Puzzle-based Learning event, including puzzles that require probabilistic reasoning, and logic and geometry puzzles.
Contents
Part I: Motivation and Teaching.- Motivation.- Getting Started.- Icebreakers.- Effective Teaching Approaches.- Part II: Tools, Tips and Strategies.- Understand the Problem.- Reasoning: Logic and Reasoning Backwards.- Pattern Recognition.- Enumerate and Eliminate.- Simplify!.- Perform a Gedanken: "What If?" and "So What?".- Simulation and Optimization.- Part III: Challenges.- Probabilistic Reasoning.- Logical Reasoning.- Geometric Reasoning.- Grand Challenges.- Summary.- List of Puzzles.
