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In a classroom at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, future teachers learn about patterns, angles, measurements and estimating – all by programming an animated cat to move along a computer screen.
It was a lesson in coding, and at a time of growing concerns about how math is taught to elementary-school children, educators at this campus in Oshawa, Ont., believe that it will help their teacher candidates become more fluent – and more comfortable – with mathematical concepts.
“Because of culture, because of education, a lot of teachers don’t come in with as much comfort with math as we would like. So how can we disrupt that? How can we get them thinking about problem-solving, all of that rich math we want them to learn, which is all built on foundations?” asked Diane Tepylo, an academic associate at the university, who teaches the coding course.
