Having Fun with Organized Kissing: A Pedagogical Note

Jong-Shin Wei
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Jong-Shin Wei: Department of International Business, Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages, Taiwan

International Journal of Business and Economics, 2008, vol. 7, issue 1, 53-59

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: problem-solving; efficiency; instructional method; pairing up (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A12 A22 B40 C65 D02 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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