Help your child become a computational thinker

Why should a parent care about computational thinking? It’s all about building your child’s capacity to solve problems — especially complex ones. It helps them be systematic, clear, and creative.

The term “computational thinking” was first coined by Jeannette Wing. In this video, Dr. Wing explains how computational thinking is used in daily life with familiar, non-intimidating examples, like cooking at the kitchen.

Computational thinking reformulates complex and difficult problems into smaller and more manageable problems, which make it easier to solve. Computational thinking consists of many specific components, such as problem decomposition, pattern abstraction, and algorithm design.

Computational thinking is the new literacy technique of the twenty-first century. We can use this way of understanding the world to teach children the process of thinking abstractly.