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College of Engineering
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Computer Science Department
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Advisor
Paris Kalathas, College of Engineering, Computer Science and Software Engineering
Funding Source
Cal Poly's Computer Science and Software Engineering Department
Date
10-2025
Abstract/Summary
This is a proposal for an activity to initiate an effort to create a series of X+CS integrated curricula for learning Computer Science (CS) in K-12. As a start, we examine Mathematics and CS standards, to find the cross-cutting concepts between the two fields. By leveraging these concepts, we bring to the foreground the ways CS can be used in the mathematical context. The goal for this research is to create a 15-week teacher training curriculum that will expose teachers to the CS concepts of Abstraction, Data Representation, Problem Comprehension and Decomposition, Control Structures, Functions and Generalization. Historically, Mathematics and CS have been linked together to support learning concepts from both fields (Papert, S. 1980). However, technological innovations during the last decade, such as social networks, cloud computing and block-based interface for programming languages, changed the way users interact with computers to create digital artifacts (Grover, S. 2021). In addition, research shows that these innovations have a profound impact on teachers’ professional development as well as on how young children conceptualize CS concepts, creating the opportunity to develop their computation literacy earlier in their career (Mishra, P. & Koehler, M. 2006, Yadav, A & Berges, M 2019).
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URL: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/ceng_surp/175