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This paper presents the results of an investigation about the impact of Educational Robotics in the mathematical teaching/learning process in the first class of a primary school. The research involved two first primary classes of the same school for a period of four months, and the robot used was a new floor turtle produced in Italy called MIND Designer. As a secondary research goal we also made an evaluation of the acquired social skills. We used both questionnaires involving three aspects related to maths and evaluation rubrics. The tests were submitted independently by a group of university experts in learning disorder for a meaningful comparison. The paper provides also some methodological and pedagogical remarks, linking Educational robotics to constructivist/constructionist views, design by competences, cooperative learning, computational thinking, and cultural artifacts.
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Cacco, L., Moro, M., Smerghetto, A. (2021). Mathematics Through Educational Robotics in a First Primary Class: A Comprehensive Study. In: Lepuschitz, W., Merdan, M., Koppensteiner, G., Balogh, R., Obdržálek, D. (eds) Robotics in Education. RiE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1316. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67411-3_13
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