Computational Thinking versus Mathematical Thinking: Correlation in learning of high school students in Colombia

Abstract

The importance of computational thinking in the development of thinking and learning mathematics is specified from the methods and techniques used to systematically and algorithmically solve operations that demand the automation of ordered and sequential knowledge, transferring each mechanism to the treatment of referring information. to instructions raised in the definition of real student problems. The purpose of the study is to analyze computational thinking versus mathematical thinking, showing that there is a correlation between them, through learning processes in high school students at 7th and 9th grade levels of the Manuel Elkin Patarroyo District Community Educational Institution in the city of Barranquilla, Colombia; In particular, similarities, analogies and similarities that are evidenced are presented, through the correlational analysis between both thoughts through the cognitive dimension of the learning processes. The study was developed using a quantitative methodology, non-experimental method, cross section and explanatory scope; allowing the questionnaire to obtain the information. The results show the coincidence between both thoughts, statistically proving the strong correlation between the variables. It is concluded that as learning processes develop in one thought, they are implicitly generated in the other.