Life Skills
AHA! Puzzles
Each week students will be introduced to well-known logic, math and verbal puzzles. Some are centuries old, while others were popularized by modern masters like Martin Gardener, H.E. Dudeney, and Edward De Bono.
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12-15
year old learners
3-10
learners per class
$12
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Meets 1x per week
Runs week after week
55 minutes per class
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Class Experience
Puzzles can be used to teach a variety of topics in an engaging and entertaining way. In engineering, Toy Problems - idealized puzzles - are often used to introduce real world problems in probability, statistics, and optimization. In this critical thinking workshop students will be introduced to classic brainteasers like the Towers of Hanoi and the Seven Bridges of Konigsberg. We will also look at probability problems, lateral thinking puzzles, paradoxes and logical fallacies. Whenever...
The goal of these sessions will be to teach students that there are tried and true techniques that can be used to approach most puzzles or problems. Some of those techniques include the Rule of Thumb, the educated guess, the estimate, grid creation, puzzle diagramming, and sketching.
55 minutes per week in class, and maybe some time outside of class.
Teacher
About Me
I teach math puzzles, logic teasers, and games. I have always been fascinated by puzzles - crosswords, secret codes, mazes, and more. I was a college chemistry major, I completed my doctorate in chemical engineering, and for a number of years I...
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