• For Day 1:
  •  Midnight Express on-line escape room (https://escape-the-crate.com/subscriber-exclusive-escape-the-midnight-express). 
  • Perusall Reading: Math for Human Flourishing
  • Pre-semester survey https://forms.gle/ahLhkqq999qxyAqe7
• For Day 2: 
  • Perusall Reading: Math with Bad Drawings (Ch. 1)
• For Day 3: 
  • Perusall Reading: Syllabus and Project Description

Monday: Symbolic Logic & Truth Tables, Homework #2 Assigned

Wednesday: Hallie Ford Tour, Homework #1 (Puzzle Analysis) Due

Friday: Logic (implication, Equivalence, and Quantifiers)

2

Logic & Library

Monday: Labor Day - No Class

Wednesday: Logic, Homework #2 due Due

Friday: Library Tour

3

Logic Puzzles (Grid, Minarizm)

• Monday (9/12): Constructing Logic Puzzles, Perusall Puzzelcraft reading due 
• Wednesday (9/14): Giving Logic Puzzles Context, Grid Puzzles, Homework #3 (Logic Puzzles) due
• Friday (9/16): Minarizm puzzles, Form groups for Escape Room Semester Project

4

• Monday (9/19): Game of Life, Perusall Game of Life reading due, fill out Google Survey
• Wednesday (9/21): Pigeonhole principle, Homework #4 (Logic Puzzles) due
• Friday (9/23): Place based research annotated bibliography due

5

• Monday (9/26): Room Puzzles (Eulerian Circuits), Hamiltonian Circuits
• Wednesday (9/28): Instant Insanity, Homework #5 (Combinatorics, Pigeons, & Game of Life) due
• Friday (9/30): Story outline/pitch due - presented to class, peer feedback due Saturday (10/1)

6

• Monday (10/3): Art Gallery Problem, Triangulations, Minimum Spanning Trees
• Wednesday (10/5): Extraction Techniques, Substitution Ciphers
• Friday (10/7): Homework #6 (Graph Theory) due, Box Puzzle 

7

• Monday (10/10): Pigeonhole reboot, Box Puzzle
• Wednesday (10/12): Escape room narrative due, peer feedback 
• Friday (10/14): No class, mid-semester day

8

• Monday (10/17): Extraction Methods, substitution ciphers, binary
• Wednesday (10/19): Technology Revised escape room narrative due
• Friday (10/21):  Workshop puzzles, Homework #7 (Extraction Techniques) due

• Monday (10/24): Voting Theory & puzzling, Perusall Assignment - How to Write a Fun Puzzle & Tutorial for Escape Room due
• Wednesday (10/26): Gerrymandering puzzles
• Friday (10/28): Flow chart & rough drafts of puzzles due.  Peer review of game room plans and puzzles.

• Monday (10/31):  Peer review of game room plans and puzzles.
• Wednesday (11/2):  in-class collaboration with teams on improving puzzles
• Friday (11/4): Puzzling Homework #8 (Voting & Gerrymandering) due in-class collaboration with teams on implementation (using technology, etc)

• Monday (11/7):  Draft Digital escape rooms due.  Play testing of digital escape room
• Wednesday (11/9):  Workshopping revisions, Homework Feedback Forms due
• Friday (11/11): Final draft of digital escape room due, Playtesting other sections rooms

• Monday (11/14): Playtesting other sections rooms
• Wednesday (11/16): Processing feedback with group, start reflection assignment. Homework: Feedback on 5 rooms due
• Friday (11/18): Last day of class Homework Reflection & Colloquium Grant Proposal due