Tracing the MENACE commentary motivates a succession of activities that could be the subject of collaborative development by computing and/or mathematics teachers at the pre-university school stage.

• Basic introduction to making construals - orientation + JS-EDEN basics
• Programming vs making construals - construal comprehension
• Automating the noughts-and-crosses player - reconstructing oxoGardner1999
• Re-engineering the interface
• Principles of MENACE - giving an account of Donald Michie's ideas - historical reconstruction
• Representing N+C positions - ternary arithmetic, experimental environment
• Functions from scripts - devising, testing and applying
• Generation of positions - feasibility and efficiency: algorithmic issues
• Symmetry - elementary group theory and permutation generation
• Combinatorics - counting positions up to symmetry etc
• Machine learning - experimenting with training of the automatic player