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| Title: | Beat the Clock |
| Authors: | Bell, Tim
Fellows, Mike
Witten, Ian |
| Keywords: | sorting
sorting network
outdoor activity
no computer required
group activity
decision-making
comparison
parallel computation |
| Issue Date: | 1998 |
| Publisher: | csunplugged.org |
| Series/Report no.: | ACM Model Curriculum |
| Abstract: | There is a limit to how fast computers can solve problems. One way to speed them up is to use several computers to solve different parts of a problem. This activity uses sorting networks to do several comparisons at the same time. No computers are required. Grade 2 or older. Prior knowledge needed: grade 2 math, greater than, less than. This is activity 8 from the free book on the website. |
| Description: | Most recently published in A Model Curriculum for K–12 Computer Science: Final Report of the ACM K–12 Task Force Curriculum Committee. (Tucker et al., October 2003.) Used by permission. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2378/258 |
| Appears in Collections: | L1 G: Algorithmic problem-solving tools
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| ACM-K12Curr-BeatTheClock.pdf | | 39Kb | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
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