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A NEW COURSE “ALGEBRA + COMPUTER SCIENCE”: WHAT SHOULD BE ITS OUTCOMES AND WHERE IT SHOULD START

Published:2023-09-01 Issue:1 Volume:513 Page:27-43
ISSN:2686-9543
Container-title:Доклады Российской академии наук. Математика, информатика, процессы управления
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Short-container-title:Doklady Rossijskoj akademii nauk. Matematika, informatika, processy upravleniâ

Author:

Borovik A. V.¹,Kondratiev V. V¹

Affiliation:

1. University of Manchester

Abstract

The words “Programming is the second literacy” were coined more than 40 years ago [13], but never came to life. The paper develops and details that old slogan by proposing that the mainstream mathematics education in schools should merge with education in computer science/programming. Of course, this means a deep structural reform of school mathematics education. We are not talking about adapting the 20th century mathematics to the 21st century—s it outlined in [10, 19], we mean the 21st century mathematics education for the 21st century mathematics. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is perhaps the first known attempt to start a proper feasibility study for this reform. The scope of the paper does not allow us to touch the delicate socio-political (and financial) sides of the reform, we are looking only at general curricular and didactic aspects and possible directions of the reform. In particular, we indicate approaches to development of a Domain Specifiic Language (DSL) as a basis for all programming aspects of a new course.

Publisher

The Russian Academy of Sciences

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