Students use escape route to learn maths

Spectra Secondary utilises escape room game as teaching tool to get children excited about learning

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Spectra Secondary students trying out their school's escape room, where they have to solve puzzles to make their way out.
Spectra Secondary students trying out their school's escape room, where they have to solve puzzles to make their way out. ST PHOTO: KHALID BABA
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Students learning mathematics at Spectra Secondary School are "escaping" from traditional classroom teaching, thanks to a new escape room game.

In such games, participants are locked in rooms and have to solve puzzles and find clues to get out.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on July 09, 2018, with the headline Students use escape route to learn maths. Subscribe