For gifted students grades 4-6
This cryptology course helps students explore how cryptographers protect sensitive information and crack the codes that can solve crimes. Students become fluent in the vocabulary of cryptology and use the shift cipher to encrypt and decrypt messages while deepening their mastery of arithmetic using the commutative, associative, and distributive properties, as well as square roots. The course also provides opportunity to develop expertise in primes, factors, and divisibility rules. Students learn procedure writing and become an atbash spreadsheet whizzes as they crunch numbers and formulas. Students secret puzzles by mastering the key word method, digital roots, affine ciphers, and modular inverses. With a mini-mystery at the close of the course, students can graduate from apprentice to bonafied agent, ready to work on missions as needed.
View the Duke TIP Cryptology Syllabus.
Head to the TIP Curriculum Archive to view all 10 lessons.
Hello!
Where can we apply for this course?
Thanks!
Hi, Amanda,
This course is freely available to students and teachers. If you go to the link above (“Head to the TIP Curriculum Archive to view all 10 lessons.”) you can access it right away.
Enjoy!
Lyn
The lesson links are no longer working.
Hi Lyn,
Many people are interested in these lessons, however the link to the archived lesson plans no longer works. Is there anyone who can look into this? Thank you!
Will this link become active again? I was planning on using it with my students.
This course looks amazing and I would like to access this course for my children. However, the links are no longer working. Do you know where I can access this?
Thanks.
I would also be interested in seeing this course.
I find this funny because this is the third time I have looked for something recommended at a site within the last half hour and the information has not been available on any of them. I guess this is just not my day.