9 PS 1 Abstraction

Abstraction is removing information that is not relevant to solving a problem?

• True

• False

Which of the following are skills needed to solve problems?

• Abstraction

• Decomposition

• Algorithmic Thinking

• Communication

What is the term to describe the process that instructs us to remove all specific detail, and any patterns that will not help us solve our problem.

Categorise these parts of the London Underground original map.

Groups:

(a) Relevant

,

(b) Not Relevant

• Parks, Roads & Landmarks

• Where the Thames River is

• How close geographically stations are to each other

• Where the train lines meet

• The train lines

• Order of the stations

When using Google Quick Draw you could use ​ (a)   to decide which parts of the picture to draw and which parts to ​ (b)   .

• abstraction
• ignore
• decomposition
• keep in
• algorithmic thinking