It requires thinkingat multiple levels of abstraction
I have seen this in my classroom with my gifted students. I have classes this year that are 60% gifted comparatively to other advanced math classes. The students I teach are always looking for new ways to solve a problem whether it be abstract or concrete.
It is choosing an appropriate representa-tion for a problem or modeling the relevant aspectsof a problem to make it tractable.
I seem to be explaining this concept to my students daily. The fact that there are so many different ways to solve a problem and there are may different approaches.
Computational thinking is using massiveamounts of data to speed up computation.
This statement reminds me of the lessons I teach my students year after year to a degree. We teach new mathematical concepts each year to students in hopes of helping them connect the dots for further for more complex problems. By teaching little skills along the way, the computation for bigger problems can be done with ease for students.