A NOVEL APPROACH FOR PROBLEM SOLVING USING COMPUTATIONAL THINKING

If information and communication technologies (ICT) are to bring about a transformational change to a sustainable society, then we need to transform our thinking. Computer professionals already have a conceptual toolkit for problem solving, sometimes known as computational thinking. However, computational thinking tends to see the world in terms of a series of problems (or problem types) that have computational solutions (or solution types). Sustainability, on the other hand, demands a more systemic approach, to avoid technological solutions, and to acknowledge that technology, human behavior and environmental impacts are tightly inter-related. This paper concerns training about computational thinking in discrete mathematics teaching. Firstly, four main components of computational thinking are given, which are abstract thinking, logical thinking, modeling thinking and constructive thinking. Secondly, some content of discrete mathematics, which have close relationship with computational thinking, are described by corresponding application example. Finally, we give a mapping from knowledge unit of discrete mathematics onto corresponding of details of computational thinking.