It's a bird, it's a plane... It's a Ninja Board?

Before school began back in September, I read about another blogger's Ninja Board.  I saw so much potential in it, that I ran with it immediately.  I wrote about some of it in the beginning.  It has since evolved into a huge project, and several in-class activities (which I may post more about in the future?)

Ok... How should I do this...  I think I will roughly frame them as problems and questions.  You guys will figure it out :)

*note* the functions I use are subject to change every semester with new classes.

After seeing their own levels change, and Ninja Points obtained, this question was already at the tip of their tongue (some students actually asked me this daily).

Ok then, the hints are coming now in the form of a chart:

Ok, so with that, students were able to figure out several properties on how the points relate to the levels.  We talked a lot about functions vs relations, properties between independent and dependent variables, floor functions...etc.

Each student also had a unique title, and a rank.  An example looks like this:

How do the ranks work?

What are some of the ranks? I used the following potential titles: Ninja Apprentice, Ninja Assassin, Elite Ninja, Stealth Ninja, Ninja Warlord, Master Ninja, Dragon Ninja...etc.

Here are some of the Ninja Pictures that I used:

 

There was also several evolutions to the physical board itself (that I meant to post about a long time ago... gah...).  It began as just a chart paper, title, and the ninjas were taped on.  I then changed it and bought one of those clear plastic envelopes -- taped it shut, and then taped it onto the chart paper.  It then became individual place holders for the new ninja upgrades.  It took me approximately 3 hours to make this addition, but made my life of putting up the ninja upgrades much much much easier.  I had some pictures of the materials and the process... but I seem to have lost it since I took it.  I had some leftover plastic envelopes that I cut up, but it's at school.  I might do a follow-up post on this after.

So a question: How long do you think it took me to do the Ninja Board so far?  What additional information would you need?

There were also tasks that students can submit to increase their Ninja Points.  These were posted throughout the year.  Here are two examples that yield a lot of Ninja Points:

Potentials for future changes:
- a new board? something that takes less time?  Currently the Ninja Board takes me a lot of time to prepare, organize, and put up.  Maybe it can be on my website only? but then again, that might not have the same effect.
- more pictures and new set up for ranks?
- other methods of obtaining points?