Classroom Games and Activities that Motivate Exploration of Foundational Understandings of Mathematics Concepts while Inadvertently Scaffolding Computational Thinking and Engineered Design

Kien H. Lim is a mathematics educator at UTEP. His research interests are on students’ problem-solving disposition (impulsive versus analytic) and instructional strategies to advance their ways of thinking (the use of prediction items and classroom voting with clicker technology; the use of mathematical tasks to provoke students’ intellectual need for the concepts they are expected to learn). He is also involved in the iMPaCT-STEM project to investigate the use of programming activities to foster student learning of foundational algebraic concepts.