TY - GEN

T1 - Students Undertaking an Elective Programming Course

T2 - 12th Congress of European Research in Mathematics Education

AU - Refvik, Kim André Stavenæs

AU - Bjerke, Annette Hessen

AU - Misfeldt, Morten

N1 - Conference code: 12

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - In this study, we investigate how students undertaking an elective programming course experience the connection between programming and mathematics. Based on stimulated recall interviews with six Grade 8 students who have solved test items from PISA 2003, we identify various experiences among the students regarding how they draw on programming skills in mathematics and vice versa. We propose that three findings, in particular, are worthy of further discussion and investigation: the way some experience programming as a context for mathematics and mathematics as a context for programming; the challenges that follow from how some students assert that programming and mathematics complement each other while others struggle to see a connection; and, perhaps the most important, the way in which the students report that experiences from programming have equipped them with skills such as being systematic and exact, which they find they need in mathematics.

AB - In this study, we investigate how students undertaking an elective programming course experience the connection between programming and mathematics. Based on stimulated recall interviews with six Grade 8 students who have solved test items from PISA 2003, we identify various experiences among the students regarding how they draw on programming skills in mathematics and vice versa. We propose that three findings, in particular, are worthy of further discussion and investigation: the way some experience programming as a context for mathematics and mathematics as a context for programming; the challenges that follow from how some students assert that programming and mathematics complement each other while others struggle to see a connection; and, perhaps the most important, the way in which the students report that experiences from programming have equipped them with skills such as being systematic and exact, which they find they need in mathematics.

M3 - Article in proceedings

SP - 2827

EP - 2834

BT - Proceedings of the Twelfth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME12)

A2 - Hodgen, Jeremy

A2 - Geraniou, Eirini

A2 - Bolondi, Giorgio

A2 - Ferretti, Federica

PB - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Y2 - 2 February 2022 through 6 February 2022

ER -