Post AtkEDMehZnHkNxDZrs by Winstonwells@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AtiW3kWlNMp8Nz9LZA by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-05-03T12:34:49Z
       
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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. 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.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtiWFnOQY10gkRzjma by photovotary@beige.party
       2025-05-03T12:36:55Z
       
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       @futurebird You're doing good work! :purple_heart_sparkle:
       
 (DIR) Post #AtiWuQlZZtGoRhCI5I by oheso@ieji.de
       2025-05-03T12:44:16Z
       
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       @futurebird OMG! That theory is so game theory stats stuff that I (vector calc aero engineer) could never stomach. I bow and swoon in respect!
       
 (DIR) Post #AtiaCjk83rcoNMwUxE by phooky@hexa.club
       2025-05-03T13:03:21Z
       
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       @futurebird ok, you're going to have to share their difficulty metric now
       
 (DIR) Post #AtiaCkJvukGUAPh5lI by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-05-03T13:21:12Z
       
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       @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.
       
 (DIR) Post #Atib705KUP5lHBggFs by dogfox@kpop.social
       2025-05-03T13:31:21Z
       
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       What is that theory??@futurebird
       
 (DIR) Post #AtinEEqvBHnyYQALo0 by masukomi@connectified.com
       2025-05-03T15:47:07Z
       
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       @futurebird given your interests, I totally want to see the same thing but designing mazes for ants.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtinKItl3HUEq6NvQe by jredlund@social.linux.pizza
       2025-05-03T15:48:12Z
       
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       @futurebird That sounds like great teaching! This discussion reminds me of a sentence I recently read in Terry Prachett's _Men at Arms_. In a description of a formal garden designed by a very eccentric architect he says, "The maze was so small people got lost looking for it." For some reason that struck me as very funny.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtinkKxnznjcm2gwoi by elduvelle@neuromatch.social
       2025-05-03T15:52:53Z
       
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       @futurebird Can I recruit them to design mazes for my rats? 🥹
       
 (DIR) Post #AtkEDMehZnHkNxDZrs by Winstonwells@mastodon.social
       2025-05-04T08:24:10Z
       
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       @futurebird this is brilliant. My favourite teacher in school was the one that taught me to think by doing lateral thinking problems every Wednesday afternoon instead of physics. Mr Hodgekinson.So many of those kids will still be talking about you in 40 or 50 years from now❤️