Math & Coding
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Math is integral to coding. In creating code, students practice problem solving and get immediate feedback on their solutions. Coding also provides opportunities to visualize and build intuitive understandings of mathematical concepts such as:
Magnitude
Distance
Angles
Rotations, flips, slides
coordinates
These visualizations and intuitions provide the cognitive hooks for the more formal math we teach in schools.
Spatial Reasoning & Sequencing with Code.org
Students will use arrow blocks to give multi-step instructions (including distances) for Scrat to collect food and avoid obstacles. Students get immediate feedback if their instructions work. Watch instructions and then try an activity. Explore an unplugged lesson plan for introducing the activity with a class.
Learn how to set up a class account in Code.org and monitor your students' progress.
Coding Concepts: Sequential
Repetition, Directions, Patterning & Shapes
Students can explore repetition while exploring scaffolded challenges and their drawings. Mathematically, students will decompose a shape into its largest repeatable sequence and create complex shapes by repeating simple sequences. Struggling coders could follow this tutorial. Explore the links to art in this video.
Coding Concepts: Sequential, repeating events
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