Session Format
Presentation Session (45 minutes)
Target Audience
Secondary Education
Location
Session 1 (PARB 127)
Abstract for the conference program
This presentation will allow participants to become middle school mathematics students as they collect data to determine the rate of the robot. A classroom lesson will be conducted (with the participants playing the role of the student) to show how LEGO robots can be an engaging tool to create collaboration among students as well as support the understanding of concepts. Participants will work in groups of 2-3 to measure and record the distance traveled by their robot during three different pre-programmed times. The data will be recorded and graphed before being used to complete a series of tasks to create a connection between rate of change, unit rate, and slope. This presentation will culminate with a discussion regarding participants’ reactions to the activity and its implication for classroom use.
Proposal Track
T2: Applied STEM Education
Start Date
3-22-2019 9:30 AM
End Date
3-22-2019 10:15 AM
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Casler-Failing, Shelli L., "Using LEGO Robots to Understand the Relationship Between Rate of Change, Unit Rate, and Slope" (2019). Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching & Learning Conference (2012-2019). 6.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/stem/2019/2019/6
Using LEGO Robots to Understand the Relationship Between Rate of Change, Unit Rate, and Slope
Session 1 (PARB 127)
This presentation will allow participants to become middle school mathematics students as they collect data to determine the rate of the robot. A classroom lesson will be conducted (with the participants playing the role of the student) to show how LEGO robots can be an engaging tool to create collaboration among students as well as support the understanding of concepts. Participants will work in groups of 2-3 to measure and record the distance traveled by their robot during three different pre-programmed times. The data will be recorded and graphed before being used to complete a series of tasks to create a connection between rate of change, unit rate, and slope. This presentation will culminate with a discussion regarding participants’ reactions to the activity and its implication for classroom use.
