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Use of Japanese Puzzles in Teaching Mathematics at Primary School
Pěničková, Barbora ; Kloboučková, Jaroslava (advisor) ; Jančařík, Antonín (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with Japanese puzzles and their use in teaching mathematics at primary school. Its main aim is to verify if it is possible for the pupils to achieve comparable results with older pupils and adult Sudoku solvers supposing that these learners are systematically guided through an escalating set of Sudoku puzzles. The theoretical part of the thesis is focused on the history of Sudoku, several strategies of its solving, other examples of Japanese puzzles and also on Sudoku in the context of its use at school. The practical part describes a series of experiments with pupils of the first, later second grade of a primary school, which were conducted in order to verify the hypothesis of this thesis.
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Historical development of numerical methods and computational techniques, from the perspective of mathematics education in elementary school.
DIVÍŠKOVÁ, Michaela
In my diploma thesis I deal with historical numerical procedures and their application in teaching. In a total of eight chapters, I describe counting techniques from history, such as magic squares, interesting counting algorithms, unconventional divisibility criteria, ancient numeration techniques, golden ratio, figurate numbers, and graphic papers. I deal with the use of historical numerical methods in teaching in the final chapter. This chapter contains eight worksheets and activity suggestions with methodical commentary.
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Magic squares
SUCHÁ, Lucie
This diploma thesis deals with basic features of magic squares and analyses these features with regard to usability during the teaching at elementary schools. Magic squares are known for hundreds years and since then they have changed due to various modifications, from which other kinds were derived. The first part of the thesis is therefore dedicated to the history. Next chapter deals with the construction of magic squares. The following chapters study similar games as Sudoku, Kakuro and Latin squares. The final part of the thesis is dedicated to the usability of magic squares in teaching mathematics. To practice the given topic, the worksheets which are divided according to their difficulty, were created.
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Use of Japanese Puzzles in Teaching Mathematics at Primary School
Pěničková, Barbora ; Kloboučková, Jaroslava (advisor) ; Jančařík, Antonín (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with Japanese puzzles and their use in teaching mathematics at primary school. Its main aim is to verify if it is possible for the pupils to achieve comparable results with older pupils and adult Sudoku solvers supposing that these learners are systematically guided through an escalating set of Sudoku puzzles. The theoretical part of the thesis is focused on the history of Sudoku, several strategies of its solving, other examples of Japanese puzzles and also on Sudoku in the context of its use at school. The practical part describes a series of experiments with pupils of the first, later second grade of a primary school, which were conducted in order to verify the hypothesis of this thesis.
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