One of my interim goals is to add a name mode to each of my puzzles.  This way teachers can use the puzzles as an activity by having students take a screen shot when they are done.  And having the screens show the student name and the levels, so that if teachers want to give credit for doing a part of a puzzle , then that's an option.

This is clunky, but until I get Google Classroom integration figured out, it isn't too, too bad.

On another note.  I just attended an online talk on Growth Mindset and it started me thinking about students fearing mistakes.  In Venn Diagrams with Unnecessary Lava, some levels have no pre-loaded clues.  In order to proceed, students must risk making a guess, and that guess might be wrong.  This seems pretty important.  I like the hypothesis testing for its own right, but this does something more.  

Currently I've seen a fair amount of teaching students by telling them about growth mindset.  But I doubt even the best spiels and the best inspirational posters are going to be as effective demonstrating the principle within an authentic learning activity.   There is something, I think, important here.  In a hypothesis testing activity, guessing wrong is part of the process, gaining us as much or almost as much information as guessing right.  

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