WEEK 7 COMPUTATIONAL THINKING

Your name: Marisa Ellsworth

Your classroom (Provide a brief description of your classroom/grade/subject/specialization, etc): I have

a third grade class with all of the students learning below a 3rd grader common core standard. My class
needs a lot of one on one attention to be able to understand what I am teaching them. For this lesson
my class will be working on mathematics

Based on the definitions provided by this week and last weeks articles, along with the
examples on p. 52 of this weeks article, complete the chart below to provide specific
examples of how you would encourage CT and problem solving in your classroom.

CT Principle How you would define it How would it manifest in your

(in your own words) class

Find a data source for a certain I could have my class collect

Data Collection problem.
Count how many times a certain
Data Analysis data appears.
Using a graph to represent data
Data Representation they collected.
Solving a math expression using
Problem Decomposition order of operations.
Solving math equations that
Abstraction have variables in it
data from flipping a coin and
figure out how many times it
lands on heads or tails.
My class would count how many
times heads occurred in their
data collection.
I would have my class create a
pie chart showing the difference
between how many times heads
or tails were flipped.
I could make up a math
expression using the data the
class collect from above and
have them solve it using order of
operations.
Im not sure that I will be able to
encourage this in my classroom
just because my class is below
in the standard for third grade
and they are not ready to learn

Solving math problems using
Algorithms and Procedures long division, and factoring
Use different tools to help them
Automation solve math problems.
Solving linear systems using
Parallelization matrix multiplication
Graph a function in a Cartesian
Simulation plane
equations with variables in it.
This principle doesnt apply for
my 3rd grade class because its
something that they dont learn
until about 5th grade.
I could have my class use a geo
board to make different shapes
while they are learning about
quadrilaterals
Again, this principle is for a
higher elementary or even high
school students so it wont apply
to my 3rd grade class.
Again, this principle is for a
higher elementary or even high
school students so it wont apply
to my 3rd grade class.