MHS Computing: Y7 Computational Thinking Embedding Homework

Computational Thinking comes under which strand of Computing?

• Digital Literacy

• Information Technology

• Computer Science

The definition of Computer Science in the curriculum is:

​ (a)   and understanding how ​ (b)   work and how they're ​ (c)   . Using ​ (d)   ​ thinking and logical ​ (e)   to solve problems.

• Investigating
• computers
• programmed
• computational
• reasoning
• Ignoring
• machines
• random
• trained

Computational thinking allows us to take​ (a)   ​ (b)   , understand what the problem is and develop possible​ (c)   .

• complex
• problems
• solutions
• simple
• programs

Reorder the four stages of Computational Thinking from first to last.

• Pattern Recognition

• Decomposition

• Abstraction

• Algorithmic Thinking

Who is this famous person from Computing history?

Which word means a person who is the first to do something?

• Ultimate

• Pioneer

• Subsequent

What is the key word that matches this definition?

The process of breaking big tasks down into smaller ones.

• Pattern recognition

• Abstraction

• Decomposition

• Algorithmic thinking

What is the key word that matches this definition?

Finding similarities in complex problems.

• Pattern recognition

• Abstraction

• Decomposition

• Algorithmic thinking

When cooking these, you should start them off in boiling water. True or false?

• True

• False

Fill in the blanks.

Pattern ​ (a)   lets us work more ​ (b)   because we can use the same ​ (c)   to complete all of the similar ​ (d)   .

• recognition
• efficiently
• instructions
• tasks
• identification
• quickly
• carrots