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Computational Thinking for All Students

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education and University Relations, Google(Crossposted on the Google for Education Blog, and the the Huffington Post)the importance of teaching computational thinking to all K-12 students

Add together the digits in the ones place. If the result is < 10, it becomes the ones digit of the answer. If it's >= 10 or greater, the ones digit of the result becomes the ones digit of the answer, and you add 1 to the next column.

Add together the digits in the tens place, plus the 1 carried over from the ones place, if necessary. If the answer < than 10, it becomes the tens digit of the answer; if it's >= 10, the ones digit becomes the tens digit of the answer and 1 is added to the next column.

Repeat this process for any additional columns until they are all added.

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