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Computer Science and the Liberal Arts Student.

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Van Loan, Charles F. – Educational Forum, 1980

Computer science education for the liberal arts student has both a practical value (creating an intelligent consumer) and an appreciative value (teaching algorithmic thinking). A computer literacy course can be structured to harmonize with the aims of liberal education. (SK)

Descriptors: Algorithms, Computer Science, Course Content, General Education

On Mathematical Inventiveness in Young Children.

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Davies, H. B. – Mathematics in School, 1980

The author presents and elaborates on a division algorithm devised by his 9-year-old son. (MK)

Descriptors: Algorithms, Cognitive Processes, Creativity, Discovery Processes

Intuition and Logic.

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Otte, Michael – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1990

Compared and contrasted are the concepts intuition and logic. The ideas of conceptual thought and algorithmic thought are discussed in terms of the world as a labyrinth, intuition and time, and the structure of knowledge. (KR)

Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Algorithms, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes