Promoting Pupils’ Computational Thinking Skills and Mathematical Reasoning – Research – The Department of Teacher Education
Promoting Pupils’ Computational Thinking Skills and Mathematical Reasoning: A Design-Based Research
The project involves designing Scratch-based activities that supports primary school teachers' efforts connecting mathematics, programming and computational thinking in the classroom. The activities are designed using a conceptual framework developed using literature, qualitative interviews and the current curriculum (LK20). Further, the activities will be tested in the classroom and further developed in cooperation with the teachers.
Project periode
2022-2027
Funding
4 years / NTNU
Research group
Læring og undervisning av matematikk med digitale verktøy
Section
About the project
The new curriculum (LK20) introduced programming and computational thinking, where several of the competency aims of primary and secondary school mathematics. Current research shows that teachers find connecting mathematics, programming and computational thinking problematic. The project involves designing Scratch-based activities that supports primary school teachers' efforts connecting mathematics, programming and computational thinking in the classroom. The activities are designed using a conceptual framework developed using literature, qualitative interviews and the current curriculum (LK20). The project uses design-based research as a methodological frame, which means that the activities will be tested in the classroom and further developed in cooperation with the teachers through several iterations.
Supervisors
- Melih Turgut, supervisor, Associate Professor, NTNU
- Alison Clark-Wilson, co-supervisor, Professor, UCL