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| Volume 7, No. 1,
April 2008 |
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Having Fun with Organized
Kissing: A Pedagogical Note |
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| Jong-Shin Wei |
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Department of International
Business, Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages, Taiwan |
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| Abstract |
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Harbaugh's daughter went to a French
school at which every day before class, everyone in the class must
kiss each other. It is easy to see that a class of 35 kids must
engage in 595 kisses. Organizing the kissing for the purpose of
time-saving and predicting how much time it would take are proposed
in this pedagogical note inspired by the entertaining puzzle made by
Harbaugh. We also illustrate how this problem-solving case study,
requiring no mathematics but careful reasoning, might be
incorporated in teaching undergraduate students majoring in
economics or business. |
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Key words:
problem-solving; efficiency; instructional method; pairing up |
| JEL
classification:
A22; A12; B40; C65; D02 |
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