SBIR Phase II: Algebra Immersion Robotics

这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目使用迭代设计研究方法来研究技术和课程创新，以最大限度地提高教育机器人的代数学习价值。该项目的研究目标是：1）使核心代数概念在机器人背景下可访问和有用的软件工具; 2）活动设计; 3）课程架构; 4）评估，包括学习成果的总结性评估。如果成功，SBIR第二阶段项目将导致产品使超过一百万的年轻人获得代数的信心和概念基础。该项目将有助于打破学校数学与作为信息经济基础的工具和概念之间人为的有害壁垒。最后，本研究将展示学习环境结构的进步，展示严格的学习如何更便携，更个性化，更与创造力和游戏交织在一起。“该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。"

This Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II project uses an iterative design research method to investigate the technical and curricular innovations need to maximize the algebra learning value of educational robotics. The research objectives of this project address: 1) software tools to make core algebra concepts accessible and useful in a robotics context; 2) activity design; 3) curricular architecture; and 4) evaluation, including summative evaluation of learning outcomes.If successful, this SBIR Phase II project will lead to products enabling over a million young people to gain confidence and conceptual grounding in algebra. The project will help to break down the artificial and detrimental wall between school mathematics and the tools and concepts that underlie the information economy. Finally, this research will demonstrate advances in the structure of learning environments, showing how rigorous learning can be more portable, more individualized, and more interwoven with creativity and play."This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)."