O uso do pensamento computacional como estratégia para resolução de problemas matemáticos.

Abstract

Computational Thinking (PC) comprises a set of computational abilities to solve problems of the various areas of knowledge, combining mathematical and engineering thinking. These skills are fundamental to everyone, not just to computer scientists. Thus, strategies for PC adoption in basic education have been extensively studied in recent years. Some papers suggest that its use associated with disciplines, suchas mathematics, from the earliest years of basic education, can improve students’ problem-solving skills and contribute to the development of mathematical, systematic, and algorithm icreasoning. However, the reislittle evidence of how the PC is related to mathematics. Our objective is to propose strategies for solving mathematical problems through a Mapping between the Fundamental Capabilities of Mathematics and the Concepts of the PC. In addition ,we developed a database of mathematical questions associated with the PC in order to disseminate the strategies developed. The results of our investigations indicate that the PC can be easily integrated into the teaching of Mathematics and that the nine concepts of PC evaluated are related to the Fundamental Capabilities of Mathematics, being the concepts of Data Analysis, Abstraction, Problem Decomposition and Algorithms and Procedures that are most relevant to this discipline.