Share Paper: Developing Pre-service Elementary Teacher’s Computational Thinking Knowledge Through Coding and Mathematics Pedagogy

  1. Cory Gleasman, Tennessee Tech University, United States
  2. ChanMin Kim, Penn State University, United States

Abstract: As computer science education standards are disseminated to K-12 school districts nationally, teacher education programs are left with the challenge of ensuring pre-service teachers are prepared to enter their first classroom with the skills and knowledge necessary to align instruction with the new standards. This paper examines the use of a learning intervention called “Block-Based Coding and Computational Thinking for Conceptual Mathematics (B2C3Math)” that aimed to help pre-service teachers majoring in early childhood and elementary education learn and apply computational thinking concepts to their elementary mathematics teaching. Ten pre-service teachers all at the same stage in their teacher preparation program ...