Global Journal of Science Frontier Research, F: Mathematics and Decision Science, Volume 22 Issue 4

© 2022. Sandra dos Anjos Canário Custódio Ribeiro. This research/review article is distributed under the terms of the Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). You must give appropriate credit to authors and reference this article if parts of the article are reproduced in any manner. Applicable licensing terms are at https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Computational Thinking and the Curriculum of Mathematics in Portugal By Sandra dos Anjos Canário Custódio Ribeiro Researcher at Le@d at Universidade Aberta Abstract- The emphasis on the importance of programming and computational thinking has been a constant in recent pedagogical trends (Wing, 2006, 2010; NRC, 2011). In the same perspective Pollock et al. (2019) characterize computational thinking as decomposition, algorithms, data and abstraction. According to Selby & Woolard (2013) and Tabesh (2017), computational thinking, in addition to being associated with decomposition, pattern recognition, algorithms and abstraction, identifies the importance of debugging, that is, the ability to test and evaluate the effectiveness of the solution , correct errors and seek to refine and optimize the solution. Keywords: teaching and learning of mathematics, computacional thinking, problem solving. GJSFR-F Classification: DDC Code: 005.1 LCC Code: QA76.6 ComputationalThinkingandtheCurriculumofMathematicsinPortugal Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of: Global Journal of Science Frontier Research: F Mathematics and Decision Sciences Volume 22 Issue 4 Version 1.0 Year 2022 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Online ISSN: 2249-4626 & Print ISSN: 0975-5896