Introduction to Pseudocode

Today we had a busy day. We worked on multiplication skills, and had our first quiz, and then we started to learn about pseudocode.

We watched this video and debriefed about how it shows specific instructions and how important it is to be clear with our communication. We also talked about feeling the emotions and frustration sometimes in math, and how we can manage those feelings.

We then had a challenge! Groups had 2 puzzles to put together.

Each puzzle was made of lines of code that we had to out in the right order. The students told me that they had learned some Python last year, so this was an easy task for most. We saw that we need to initialize variables first, then input values, then do calculations. We saw that there is special syntax, * is multiply / is divide and ^ is exponent. We will build on our skills bit by bit over the term. We are not learning a coding language but we are working on the logic and writing it in pseudocode.