Robótica educacional nas escolas de Curitiba: possibilidades pedagógicas para o ensino de matemática com o Ludobot

Abstract

The scope of this research covers the work done with Educational Robotics in the formative years of elementary school. With the purpose of teaching Mathematics with Educational Robotics, the guiding question of the research is presented in order to reveal: in which ways can the Ludobot be used in Educational Robotics in order to highlight mathematical concepts for students of the early years of elementary education, especially considering the context in which the research emerges, a full and comprehensive education during the whole day (extended time) as offered by Curitiba’s Local Education Authority? With the intention that this object provides evidence that supports its use in a theoretical and practical articulation in relation to this theme, we established an objective of describing possibilities of using Ludobot in conjunction with Educational Robotics, as a tool for teaching Mathematics. Ludobot is a kit made up of electronic parts, sensors and actuators and plastic parts such as connectors. This kit was offered by the Curitiba Municipal Department of Education to Municipal schools in 2019 in order to expand the existing project within the robotics field. The research is developed with a qualitative approach, descriptive like, as we consider that this approach seeks to deepen the understanding of the researched phenomena in relation to the context in which this phenomenon is found. The collected data was analyzed based on the proposition of the categories: the idea of technology for teaching; the idea for teaching Mathematics and the idea for Educational Robotics, in Curitiba’s Municipal schools, in a study which refers to a three pillar analysis: textual analysis; thematic analysis; and interpretative analysis. Our results show that Educational Robotics can work together with proposals that consider projects, together with Problem Solving methodology. Ludobot allows the teacher to use it within a teaching context which contributes to a proposal for the construction and development of learning, whilst being a resource to mediate teaching proposals. This study is a tool for the formulation of our Educational Product called Educational Robotics and Mathematics during the Initial Years – Activity Proposals, in which we present suggestions to begin working with Ludobot and describe, in detail, some possibilities of how to work with Educational Robotics for the teaching of Mathematics in the early years of elementary school.