While I got my first look at coding during my undergraduate program, I hadn't appreciated the potential for using coding in the classroom until I took a Computational Thinking course at Althouse by Lisa Floyd. In this course I was introduced to the idea that coding promotes a unique skill-set in students.  Through this different way of thinking, students learn about algorithms and sequences, are encouraged to be creative and develop problem solving skills.  In coding, a mistake is an opportunity to discover something new and I love that coding helps students realize that it's okay to get something wrong and that there are countless different solutions to any problem.  From this introduction, I've made a push for coding in my own teaching experiences, participating in developing and teaching math focused lessons stemmed in computational thinking. 

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A selection of lesson plans that incorporate coding into math are available for you to view.