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In one of our favourite books, entertaining mathematical puzzles, martin gardner. The first mathematical puzzles were encountered in sumerian texts that date back to around 2,500 bc. What is missing in most curricula from elementary school all the way through to university education is coursework focused on the development of problemsolving skills. Yet the best evidence of the puzzle based learning approach can be found in the works of alcuin, an. Table 1 shows that the class given the crossword puzzle was alternated throughout the semester for each of the four tests. Top aptitude reasoning books in india to prepare for all competitive exams. This guide to puzzlebased learning accompanies a selection of mathematical and logic based puzzles. We have included the 20 most popular puzzles below, but you can find hundreds more by browsing the categories at the bottom, or visiting our homepage.
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