The TI Rover programmable robots will help students conceptually understand transformations according to the following standard: "G.CO.A.2 - Represent transformations in the plane using, e.g., transparencies and geometry software; describe transformations as functions that take points in the plane as inputs and give other points as outputs. Compare transformations that preserve distance and angle to those that do not (e.g., translation versus horizontal stretch)."
Specifically, students will be able to program the robots, which will help them conceptually understand transformations as represented as functions. Regarding COVID, students have been deprived, in general, of hands-on assignments in the classroom in which they collaborate with fellow students. This project will allow students to collaborate with their peers and, once again, will allow them to engage with an assignment in a way in which they have been deprived of over the course of COVID. We currently possess 4 rovers as a department, but this is not enough to create small-group activities with the rovers with an ideal rover-to-student ratio of 1:4.
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The TI Rover programmable robots will help students conceptually understand transformations according to the following standard: "G.CO.A.2 - Represent transformations in the plane using, e.g., transparencies and geometry software; describe transformations as functions that take points in the plane as inputs and give other points as outputs. Compare transformations that preserve distance and angle to those that do not (e.g., translation versus horizontal stretch)."
Specifically, students will be able to program the robots, which will help them conceptually understand transformations as represented as functions. Regarding COVID, students have been deprived, in general, of hands-on assignments in the classroom in which they collaborate with fellow students. This project will allow students to collaborate with their peers and, once again, will allow them to engage with an assignment in a way in which they have been deprived of over the course of COVID. We currently possess 4 rovers as a department, but this is not enough to create small-group activities with the rovers with an ideal rover-to-student ratio of 1:4.
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