TCEA 2014 Presentation: Math comes to life when students apply their skills using computer programming. Students learn problem-solving skills and make concrete connections using angles, variables, functions, and more. Learn about free and easy apps and websites you and your students can explore in an hour and use all year.

1. Apply Math Concepts PreK – 12
with an Hour of Code
http://tiny.cc/KimGarcia

2. Apply Math Concepts PreK – 12
with an Hour of Code
Kim Garcia, Georgetown ISD
TCEA 2014 Convention Presentation

3. What is the Hour of Code?
• www.code.org
• One-hour introduction to Computer Science
• Demystify “coding,” programming, and computer
science
• Anyone can learn the basics to be a:
– Programmer
– Creator
– Inventor

4. What is the Hour of Code?
• www.code.org
• Anyone Can Learn: 60 second video
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYZF6oIZtfc

5. Georgetown ISD’s Hour of Code
• Georgetown ISD’s Hour of Code Events
– http://www.georgetownisd.org/HourOfCode
• Student Success
– 4th Grade Boys and Girls Club Hour of Code participant:
“He turned 90 degrees – That’s a right angle!”

6. Connection Between
Math & Computer Science
(Programming/Coding)
• Computer Science is applied mathematics
• It is possible for students to learn a new
mathematical concept through programming
• Programming environments for kids help students
represent math concepts visually and allows
them to experiment on the representation
• Programming helps students develop problemsolving skills, which translates well into the math
classroom

7. An Hour of Code
in Your Math Classroom
• Hour of Code: Teach http://code.org/educate/hoc
• Scratch
web-based
• Hopscotch
iPad
• Kodable
iPad
• Alice
install
• And many more options!

8. Scratch
• Web-based
• Grades 3-12
• Get Started & Tutorial
– http://scratch.mit.edu/ > Create
• Hour of Code Tutorial
– http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tip_bar=hoc
• Math Concepts
– Degrees, angles
– Coordinate plane: x, y coordinates
• David Wees: Learning Math Through
Programming
– http://davidwees.com/content/learning-math-throughprogramming

9. Scratch
Draws a
square
Draws a
shape with
more sides
& a “flower”

10. Hopscotch
• iPad App
• Grades 3-8

11. Kodable
• iPad App
• Preschool – Grade 2

12. Alice
• Install on a Computer
• Grades 6-12

13. Ideas for Implementing
an Hour of Code
• Choose an activity & commit an hour of class
time. Learn with your students!
– Cover Math TEKS and Technology Applications TEKS
• Students continue their Hour of Code projects
in a center or when they finish their work
• Find ways for students to demonstrate math
understanding by coding it
– Word problems
– Projects

14. More Resources for Connecting
Math & Programming
• Bootstrap http://www.bootstrapworld.org/
– A curriculum that educates students in algebra and
computer programming simultaneously
– http://www.northeastern.edu/insolution/other/2013/07/bui
ld-a-game-learn-math-be-cool/

15. More Resources for Connecting
Math & Programming
• ComputerBasedMath.org http://www.computerbasedmath.org/
– Movement to build a new math curriculum with
computer-based computation at its heart
– Campaigning to redefine math education away from
historical hand-calculating techniques and toward reallife problem-solving situations that drive high-concept
math understanding and experience
– TED Talks – Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real
math with computers
http://www.ted.com/talks/conrad_wolfram_teaching_kids
_real_math_with_computers.html
– WolframAlpha Computational Knowledge
Engine http://www.wolframalpha.com/

16. Apply Math Concepts PreK – 12
with an Hour of Code
http://tiny.cc/KimGarcia