Basic

High school (ages 12+)
Thinking & Learning

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

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Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the cognitive function?Forms the essential scaffolding for advanced learning and abstract reasoning
2. What is the historical computing landmark?BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) democratized programming in the mid-20th century
3. What does "basic" mean in science and math?Basic means the simplest ideas that are the building blocks for more complicated things. They are the first steps we learn, like the rules of geometry or the first numbers.
4. Why was the computer language BASIC important?BASIC was made to make programming easy for beginners. It let many people learn to write computer programs and helped computers become popular.

Epistemology: The branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge, its nature, and scope.
Axiom: A statement or proposition that is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true.
Paradigm: A typical example or pattern of something; a model.
Meta-cognitive: Relating to or denoting thought about one's own thought processes.