Merge Sort Abstraction Practice

Type the numbers into the boxes to show the sorted sublists created during each merge step.

Student name

Array length: (fixed at 8 for this activity).

Merge step 1: sorted pairs (2 numbers)

Sort each pair

Merge step 2: sorted groups of 4

Merge two sorted pairs into a sorted group of four

Merge step 3: final sorted list (8 numbers)

Merge the two sorted groups of four