Towards the goal of providing universal CS opportunites for students, we have been working with the math department at the high school. Most students take the Math 2 course, so we've targeted that class. Using funds from our grant, we purchased a class set of Edison robots.
Our aim is to connect the CS learning directly to the math concepts in the course. Using the robots has elevated student engagement and collaboration. The first two lessons are:
Exploring functions
Once students have learned about functions in math (including f(x) notation), this lesson solidifies that understanding and connects to how functions in CS are the same and how they differ.
Trigonometry
This lesson challenges students to write programs for the Edison that incorporated right-triangle trigonometry. One robot travels forward, turns 90 degrees, then travels forward again. A second robot is programmed to meet the first following the "hypotenuse." Students need to calculate the appropriate angle and distance.
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