Ekaterina Sedelnikova

The relevance of the problem under study is determined by the provisions of the Federal State Educational Standard of Primary General Education for the development of algorithmic thinking in junior students. The purpose of this work is to identify pedagogical conditions for the formation of algorithmic thinking in second-graders through teaching them how to draw up logical tasks. Research methods: theoretical analysis of psychological and pedagogical research works on the problems of the development of algorithmic thinking in primary school students, studies on teaching children how to solve logical problems; pedagogical experiment. The main results of the article: the authors give the concepts of “algorithmic thinking”, “algorithm”, “logical tasks”; they work out an experimental program for the formation of algorithmic thinking in the process of training second-graders to draw up logical tasks, and assess its effectiveness.