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I always attempt to help students find joy in learning and upon arriving to the classroom with a trolley full of pumpkins, there was no doubt a lot of joy in the air.
Despite their excitement to do so I did not want to repeat the same lesson as the kids have experienced in years prior, I wanted to include mathematics in a new way. When I said this to my classrooms they immediately said “oh great are we going to count the seeds, are we going to create fractions somehow”, as fractions are our current learning topic. My response of course was “I challenge you to code the pumpkins to life”. Unfortunately, my kids have not yet fully realized that coding and computational thinking is an important part of mathematical thinking
