- Title
- Mapping Computational Thinking Skills to the South African Secondary School Mathematics Curriculum
- Creator
- Bradshaw, Karen L, Milne, Shannon
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- text
- Type
- book
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/440285
- Identifier
- vital:73763
- Identifier
- ISBN 9783030950033
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95502-1_41
- Description
- Computational thinking (CT) is gaining recognition as an important skill for learners in both Computer Science (CS) and several other disciplines, including mathematics. In addition, researchers have shown that there is a direct correlation between poor mathematical skills and the high attrition rate of CS undergraduates. This research investigates the use of nine core CT skills in the South African Grades 10–12 Mathematics curriculum by mapping these skills to the objectives given in each of the topics in the curriculum. The artefact developed shows that all the identified CT skills are used in the curriculum. With the use of this mapping, future research on interventions to develop these skills through mathematics at secondary school, should produce school leavers with better mathematical and problem solving abilities, which in turn, might contribute to better success rates in CS university courses.
- Format
- 16 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Springer Cham
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Bradshaw, K., Milne, S. (2022). Mapping Computational Thinking Skills to the South African Secondary School Mathematics Curriculum. In: Leung, W.S., Coetzee, M., Coulter, D., Cotterrell, D. (eds) ICT Education. SACLA 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1461. Springer, Cham
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