COMPUTATIONAL THINKING

1. What is computational thinking?

• Giving instructions to a computer

• Thinking like a computer - in binary

• Using a set of techniques and approaches to help to solve problems

Which of the following is NOT a computational thinking technique?

• Decomposition

• Pattern recognition

• Coding

Which of the following is an example of thinking computationally?

• Planning out your route when going to meet a friend

• When going to meet a friend, wandering around until you find them

• When going to meet a friend, asking a parent to plan your route for you

Which computational thinking technique involves breaking a problem down into smaller parts?

• Abstraction

• Decomposition

• Algorithms

To create a successful computer program, how many computational thinking techniques are usually required?

• 2

• 4

• 1

When is a computer most likely to be used when using computational thinking?

• During decomposition

• At the end, when programming a computer

• When writing algorithms

What is decomposition?

• Breaking down a complex problem or system into smaller, more manageable parts

• Adding detail to make a problem more complex

• When you ignore the unnecessary detail in a problem

Which of these is an example of decomposition?

• Breaking the problem of organising a cake sale into smaller parts, such as who will bake the cakes and when to hold the cake sale

• Taking the problem of baking a cake and thinking about how we can make it the best cake possible

• Looking at what different kinds of cake can be made

What is pattern recognition?

• Breaking down a complex problem into smaller problems

• Building models from patterns

• Looking for similarities among and within problems

Which of the following contains a pattern?

• All cars have wheels

• My car is blue

• My friend's car has an MP3 player