MATH-Y CODE: With lessons like “Maze Game Challenge” and “Choose Your Own Adventure,” Coding with Scratch could make your students actually want to learn math over the summer. The five lessons, full ...

Teacher candidates use programming languages such as Scratch to write commands to make the animated cat cross the screen. “Everything we’re doing in coding is math.

I find it hard to describe the Scratch “language” and programming in words (I’ve had my Lego Mindstorms robotics kit for years). The best way is to download Scratch and see for yourself.