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Which One Doesn’t Belong?

Abstraction

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Which one doesn’t belong? Be ready to defend your choice.

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What aspects of the figures did you focus on to make your choice? What aspects did you ignore?

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The process of looking at patterns to work out what is important and what can be ignored is called abstraction. This is what you do as a computational thinker to represent a problem in general terms.

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