I had my 5th graders design mazes then we timed each other taking them and they have gotten SO competitive about who can make the most difficult maze on a grid of a given size.

myrmepropagandist

I had my 5th graders design mazes then we timed each other taking them and they have gotten SO competitive about who can make the most difficult maze on a grid of a given size. They have developed a whole theory of what makes a maze "hard."

I'm so glad that I get to teach "non grade-bearing" courses in tech.

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@futurebird ok, you're going to have to share their difficulty metric now

myrmepropagandist

@phooky

The average time of 12 students from the other section with the person who made the maze kept secret.

I taught them how to use a while loop to find the averages... which isn't efficient at all, but did get them all using the while loops correctly.

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I had my 5th graders design mazes then we timed each other taking them and they have gotten SO competitive about who can make the most difficult maze on a grid of a given size.