Computational Thinking

Which of the 4 computational thinking skills are required to complete the following task?: You use the pattern of the turn angle and the number of steps taken by the Python turtle to develop an understanding of the relationship between the number of steps, the angles, and the sides of a polygon.

• Abstraction

• Algorithm Design

• Pattern Recognition

• Decomposition

Which of the 4 computational thinking skills are required to complete the following task?: You look at the different ways organisms can be classified. For example, by whether they are aquatic or have wings to fly in the air.

• Abstraction

• Algorithm Design

• Pattern Recognition

• Decomposition

Which of the 4 computational thinking skills are required to complete the following task?: You determine cyclic trends in the rise and drop of the country's economy.

• Abstraction

• Algorithm Design

• Pattern Recognition

• Decomposition

Which of the 4 computational thinking skills are required to complete the following task?: Musical compositions from the Baroque Period are examined for commonalities in melodic design and instrumentation.

• Abstraction

• Algorithm Design

• Pattern Recognition

• Decomposition

Which of the 4 computational thinking skills are required to complete the following task?: You examine an image not only as a whole entitity but also by its individual pixel characteristics.

• Abstraction

• Algorithm Design

• Pattern Recognition

• Decomposition

Which of the 4 computational thinking skills are required to complete the following task?: You are very hungry and you decide to bake a batch by following your grandmother's chocolate chip cookie recipe.

• Abstraction

• Algorithm Design

• Pattern Recognition

• Decomposition

Breaking a complex problem down into smaller problems and solving each one individually.

• Decomposition
• Abstraction
• Programming
• Algorithmic Thinking

Picking out the important bits of information from the problem, ignoring the specific details that don't matter.

• Decomposition
• Abstraction
• Programming
• Algorithmic Thinking

A logical way of getting from the problem to the solution. If the steps you take to solve a problem follow an algorithm then they can be reused and adapted to solve similar problems in the future.

• Decomposition
• Abstraction
• Programming
• Algorithmic Thinking

Which of these would not be involved in decomposing a problem?

• Thinking about how the problem could be divided into smaller parts
• Working out who could help you solve a part of the problem
• Adding more parts to the problem so it becomes more complaex