Computational Thinking

Mark and Sheena have designed a set of instructions that their game system can understand and use. This is called

• Computational Thinking

• Computing

• Algorithm

• Programming

Computational Thinking is

• a set of skills and practices for solving complex problems

• a repeatable process that delivers an expected result

• a set of instructions that a computer can understand or use

• an individual academic class

Based on TCAP predictions, Chance and Layla predict that it is likely that more than 63% of eighth graders will be at grade level or above. This is an example of

• Relativity

• Debugging

• Probability

• Decomposition

When Google wants to sell ads on its pages, customers often review this

• Algorithm

• PageRank

• Relativity

• Pattern recognition

Aldona is beginning a new math unit. On the first problem, she must do this to begin solving it:

• debugging

• decomposition

• pattern recognition

• relativity

Investigator Rodriguez approaches the crime scene and immediately focuses on the footprints under the window. This is an example of

• abstraction

• probability

• relativity

• decomposition

Celia notices that each time she tests the samples with saline, each sample turns pink. This is an example of:

• probability

• abstration

• algorithm

• pattern recognition

Each time Evan and Jose' play cards, Jose' will lose his first hand, but then win the next three. This is called

• relativity

• pattern recognition

• algorithm

• abstraction

Daphne's moldy bread experiment shows that warm temperatures increase the time and amount of mold. Now she wonders if that would be similar to cheese. This is called

• relativity

• probability

• algorithm

• debugging

If you are trying to download photos from your phone onto your computer, but you get an error message that there isn't any room or that it is full, the problem is with the ________ of your computer.

• operating system

• chipset

• memory

• motherboard