Students successfully transformed mathematical area formulas into computational representations using blockly components¶

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q2 i? Primary five students transformed area formulas into computational representations using arithmetic operators, variable blocks, and set blocks in App Inventor. → 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

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Qualitative conversation analysis of teacher-student interaction during stage one of the lessons with 23 primary five students. Students suggested 'arithmetic operators such as multiplication sign blocks', variable blocks, and set blocks to express area formulas, quoted from the lesson transcript analysis.

"Students first successfully transformed the mathematical formulas into a computational representation. The teacher asked students which blocks they should choose to express the area formula."

Discussion¶

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