8.AP.M.01

Teaching Decomposing Problems in Grade 8: Oklahoma Standard 8.AP.M.01 Professional software engineers rarely tackle a large program as one giant block of code — they break it into pieces small enough to actually understand. Oklahoma's standard 8.AP.M.01 asks eighth graders to practice that exact divide-and-conquer strategy: decomposing problems and subproblems into parts that make designing,…