The Old Approach to Modeling:
- Describe the problem in a natural language.
- Throw away the nonessentials.
Restate the problem in precise
mathematical statements.
- Use mathematical techniques to analyze and "solve" the problem.
Problems with the Old Approach
- Translating problems into mathematical statements takes practice.
- The mathematical techniques are prone to human errors.
- But techniques are easier to teach and test than problem formulation.
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Computational Thinking