BIBLIOS

Document type
Conference papers

Document subtype
Full paper

Title
Developing computational thinking in college students with digital technologies

Participants in the publication
Carlos Albuquerque (Author)
Dep. Matemática
Maria C. Costa (Author)
António Domingos (Author)

Summary
To contribute to the need for more prepared professionals to face the increasing challenges of modern societies, universities should find strategies that provide college students with 21st century skills that are necessary to solve real world problems. Computational thinking is a cognitive process that requires problem-solving skills, and also can help learning mathematics, often accused of being responsible for the lack of professionals in STEM areas. This paper research computational thinking dimensions used by college students from two math courses of a Portuguese University in the context of a project aimed to calculate the annual percentage rate of charge, using STEM contents. With a qualitative methodology using an interpretive approach, and based on documental analysis applied to projects developed by the students, it is concluded that the project promoted several dimensions of computational thinking in the students as stated in the literature.

Editor(s)
Eleonora Faggiano, Alison Clark-Wilson, Michal Tabach, Hans-Georg Weigand


Event
Mathematics Education in Digital Age: Proceedings of the 17th ERME Topic Conference MEDA 4

Publication Identifiers

Address
Bari, Itália

Publisher
University of Bari Aldo Moro


Document Identifiers
URL - https://www.uniba.it/it/ateneo/editoria-stampa-e-media/linea-editoriale/fuori-collana/meda4-proceedings-30.pdf

Keywords
Computational thinking college students mathematics education interdisciplinarity STEM