Computational thinking in mathematics teaching in secondary school

Abstract

Researchers acknowledge the importance of computational thinking for all, not only computer scientists. Strong links between computational thinking and mathematics led to the integration of computational thinking into mathematics curricula in many countries around the world. This ongoing research aims therefore to deepen our understanding of what students’ computational thinking is while solving mathematics problems in secondary school. This contribution reports on an experimentation of the famous Sissa’s chessboard problem in a Grade 8 class aiming at testing the operational character of a definition of computational thinking based on existing literature.