Finding the Right Route 3-3-14

This week we worked on Route Transposition Template Ciphers to both encrypt and decode messages.  Although it was difficult at first we think the majority of the students really caught on as they continued to work on them and develop their own message.

We started with a message similar to this.

 

The students then used all of their previous knowledge of ciphers to try and solve it.  When that did not work we helped out with a hint.  We talked about arrays and used an example.  This really got them headed in the right direction.  However, there was still a lot of trial and error that occurred before they were able to figure it out.  Some of that trial and error is shown in the pictures below.

  The students slowly but surely caught on and developed their own messages for each other to decipher.  We encourage conversations at home about each type of ciphers we work on during IMSA.  It may even turn out to help you at the end of the year parent night!!!  See you all next week!