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Designing for Discovery - Lessons from Hungarian Maths Education

Speaker: Levente Bodnár and Zsombor Fehér, EmptyMatter

Mathematics teachers have used discovery-based methods for decades, long before it became a design philosophy in puzzle games. Drawing on our experience with the Hungarian Pósa method, we'll explore how carefully designed problem sequences guide students to discover complex ideas and build understanding, and how this approach can be used to combine fun and challenge in thinky games. We hope this new perspective proves to be useful for other puzzle designers, and creates new approaches to how games teach.