File:TFPIE2013 Racket Functional Programming.pdf

In light of current trends that regard coding as the literacy of the 21st century, the M.Ed program in mathematics education in our college of education offers its students – elementary mathematics teachers - two consecutive courses in computer science, in which they are exposed basic principles and practices of computing as well as its ties to mathematics and to mathematics instruction. In the last two years, both courses used the Racket functional programming environment. It is the aim of this presentation to reflect on the experience we had so far with having elementary mathematics teachers learn to design simple programs in a functional programming style.