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The present work describes the experience of teaching robotics for children at secondary school level. A set of exercises was designed and evaluated. The exercises were designed for teaching robotic systems, basic programming and control concepts, and the tasks included learning important mathematical and physical science definitions. The proposed robotics exercises were introduced to the curriculum of the London School of Mathematics and Programming and preliminary teaching and learning outcomes showed that the majority of the proposed robotics exercises were attractive to children independently of the tasks’ difficulty.
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The authors would like to thank E. Galuzo, I. Kirilenko, I. Shirokolobov, R. Luchin and D. Deliya for fruitful discussions and technical assistance.
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Stone, A., Farkhatdinov, I. (2017). Robotics Education for Children at Secondary School Level and Above. In: Gao, Y., Fallah, S., Jin, Y., Lekakou, C. (eds) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. TAROS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10454. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64107-2_47
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