Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Rationale: Teach students the history of the enigma machine and how to crack the enigma
code. Students are able to used problem solving and decoding skills in this lesson.
Curriculum Connections: Social Studies. Mathematics
Curriculum Competencies: Curriculum Document
Big Idea: Historical mathematicians nurtured a sense of play and curiosity that led to the
development of many areas in mathematics.
Reasoning and analyzing
Explore, make connections, predict, analyze, generalize, and make conclusions
Use historically appropriate tools and technology to explore problems from the
past
Understanding and solving
Explore multiple strategies used to solve problems throughout history
Develop, construct, and apply mathematical understanding through play, inquiry,
and problem solving
Engage in problem-solving experiences that are connected to place, story, and
cultural practices relevant to the historical context
Communicating and representing
Communicate in a variety of ways, including written and oral language from a
variety of cultures
Understanding historical mathematical understanding through concrete, pictorial,
and symbolic representations of the past
Content:
Cryptography: use of cyphers, encryption, and decryption throughout history; modern
uses of cryptography in war; digital applications
Number and Number Systems: including written and oral numbers, zero, rational
numbers, pi, irrational numbers, prime numbers
Lesson Powerpoint
Projector
Lesson Activities:
Online Enigma simulator Listen and watch the Enigma Simulator on the
shows how complex the code Projector
seems, also shows the
simplicity of the wiring inside.
http://enigmaco.de/enigma/en
igma.html
Students will engage with the Start rotors at the same place, so everyone is
simulator playing around and on the same settings all the time
making codes. The entire Pair and Share - They have to solve the
class will start on the same codes on the worksheet.
settings and write a message
to be decoded.
Then students will work on Google Doc Worksheet w/Codes to break
decoding messages. As a Scaffolding/ Can I Do It? exercises that start
class, with a known starting simple and gradually have less given
point, students will try to information and force students to do more
decode each other's critical thinking on their own
messages.
Lesson Notes:
Answer Key:
1. Hello
2. Howareyou
3. Wowthisisneat
4. Whereareyoufrom
5. Alanturingcreatedthemachine
6. MathMathMathMathMath
7. Wesatinstarbucksandcreatedthisworksheet
8. Myfavouritefoodissteak
9. Lizisawesome
10. welovehistoricalconnections