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Role: Cryptologist

Audience: Governer Schneider

Format: e-mail

Topic: single variable equations

Strong Verb: Apply

Day 1: Students have to design a cipher based on an Algebra equation. They have to then use their equation to translate the message:

"Michigan has great public schools, let's keep it that way" into a coded message.

Day 2: The students have to write the governor an e-mail explaining how they developed their cipher, how to use it to discover what the coded message says, and then ,why public schools are important.