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Resources for Puzzle-Based Learning - for more information about the courses, please see course outlines.

Maths Drop-In Centre

Students in Puzzle-Based Learning are allowed and encouraged to use the MLC Drop-In Centre to discuss any aspect of their mathematical learning. The Drop-In Centre is available both face-to-face and online, and you can find out more on the MLC Drop-In Centre website.

Resources

The MLC has given lectures on the maths concepts that appear in Puzzle-Based Learning to students in various courses over the years. You may find them useful to help you make sense of what you see in Puzzle-Based Learning. Links to these seminars and related resources are organised below.

Combinations and permutations

This revision seminar was given to students of the old course Mathematics for Information Technology in 2012. It covered counting techniques, including combinations, permutations, allocations etc.

This revision seminar was given for students of Mathematics for Data Science in Semester 2 2020. David discussed counting strategies, including the multiplication principle, and permutations and combinations.

Optimisation using slack variables

This revision seminar from Sem 2 2012 covered the idea of linear optimisation problems, a couple of examples, and a discussion of choosing the number of basic solutions.

This revision seminar from Sem 1 2016 covered optimisation using slack variables.

This revision seminar from Sem 2 2016 covered formulating optimisation problems mathematically. That is, going from the text of the problem to the equations and inequalities that need to be solved.