Students developed mobile CT concepts, practices, and perspectives through app development activities¶

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q2 i? Teacher interviews indicated students used App Inventor components, sequences, loops, conditionals, and data persistence, and applied mobile CT practices including modeling, testing and debugging, and reusing and remixing. → Fang 2025

Evidence¶

Fang 2025¶

Fang, X., Ng, D. T. K., Tam, W. T., & Yuen, M. (2025). Design mobile computational thinking-integrated mathematics lessons based on the 5E instructional model for primary students. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-025-10513-x

q2 · i? · design · r2

Post-lesson interviews with the teacher and teacher assistants about students' mobile CT development. The teacher reported students used components like 'buttons, text boxes, GPS, sound player to design app interfaces' and saved designs to the App Inventor data server.

"Students could use sequences and loops to identify and repeat their game by clicking “restart”, conditionals to make decisions to handle different conditions and cases."

Discussion¶

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• Students successfully transformed mathematical area formulas into computational representations using blockly components — related
• Students tested and debugged their apps against potential input errors such as symbols or English characters — a narrower finding that bears on this claim