Guide to Teaching Puzzle-Based Learning

Guide to Teaching Puzzle-Based Learning Synopsis

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