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victim of love · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 11:29 am Post subject: Petals Around the Rose

Play Petals Around the Rose

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

It's a great game (also known as Chairs Around the Table). I used to play it with my psych students in a lesson on perception. They loved it--but only after they figured it out.

victim of love · Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:24 am Post subject:

Wow, you're a psych prof! Cool. Your students must get a blast out of your observations and assumptions on their English language slips of the tongue. Wink

How'd you explain the best way to figure out the brainteaser(Petals around the Rose) to your students without giving it away?

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Not a prof, just a high school teacher.

I told them that the brighter they are the more likely it is they will have trouble changing their perceptions so as to be able to look at the dice as simply as a little kid. Then we'd start to play on the floor. I'd remind them to think like a kid. Think like a kid. Eventually they'd get it.