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SORTING ALGORITHMS FOR 5TH AND 6TH GRADE STUDENTS: GREEDY OR COOPERATIVE?

2016

Our main research goal lies in a proposal to discuss the lack of, and improve, activities in the Italian school curriculum about discrete mathematics, computer algorithms and cryptography, especially for 3rd to 8th grade students. Activities of this kind are missing almost entirely, both in the school programs and in textbooks, despite many agree that they can be really useful to improve both general skills, such as reasoning and modeling, and skills particular to discrete mathematics, such as algorithmic and recursive thinking. A survey among various grades teachers confirmed this. The activity we are going to describe fits into a wider research project. Design research, chosen as the meth…