Swasti Maharani, Toto Nusantara, Abdur Rahman As'ari, Abd Qohar
Computational thinking is very needed in the 21 century where we live in digitalization era. There is a global movement to include computational thinking in the school curriculum. This research aims to describe how computational thinking studentsin solving the algebraic problem. We use the qualitative descriptive method. The subject was three students enrolled in an Algebra course intheir first year at a large university in the Javanese, Indonesia. The result shows that the first step when solving the problems is an abstraction. The second step is decomposition. After the students decide what the information in-keep and what in ignore, they did the decomposition process. Then generalization to make a generic term, the last step is algorithmic. The algorithmic process is the applications of the generalization before. The method finds out the solution, especially algebra, can be done without the debugging process. The recommendation for future research views the computational thinking in another subject, need to be reviewed if computational thinking will be included in the school curriculum in Indonesia. It is also necessary to develop computational assessment in mathematics education. © IJSTR 2019.
Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia
