Educational robotics for learning mathematics. An experience in primary school

Abstract

Robots are more and more present around us and have also entered schools thanks to educational robotics. This article introduces the theoretical references to educational robotics and discusses the reasons for introducing it into school curricula. The activities of educational robotics permit to pursue different goals: on one hand robots are used to familiarize pupils to technology and computational thinking, on the other they can serve as a support to develop disciplinary and transversal skills. Some studies in this field are reviewed. The article, eventually, presents robots that can be used in school classes along with an experimentation realized in the 3rd and 6th grade using BeeBot.