PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2018
San Diego, California
Computational Thinking in University Mathematics Education: A Theoretical Framework
Page: 1171
In recent years “Computational thinking” has become a trending topic among teachers who have seen their curricula include the term, and researchers who seek to pinpoint both what it means and how it can be implemented in a meaningful way in classrooms. We see a crucial need in mathematics education to understand how students could be empowered to participate in the computational thinking that is now becoming an integral part of the mathematics and broader community. In our research, we are interested in examining how university mathematics students may come to appropriate programming and engage in computational thinking for mathematics, as mathematicians would do. In this paper, we present the theoretical framework that grounds our research.