Teaching Malta’s children to think like problem solvers

Teaching Malta’s children to think like problem solvers

It starts with a beaver. Or rather, with 3,499 young people across Malta and Gozo, sitting in classrooms and computer labs, puzzling over brainteasers about beavers building dams, robots sorting letters, and hikers choosing the shortest trail through a forest. No coding required. No special software. Just 45 minutes of pure logical thinking − and,...