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Abstract:

Can educational robots be used to teach students their multiplication tables?

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The objective of this interesting project is to determine whether or not educational robots are effective in aiding students to learn their multiplication tables.

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After observing some of the challenges most of my classmates encounter learning and remembering their multiplication tables for the past weeks, we decided to research an innovative, fun, and exciting way to assist our teacher to help us overcome this challenge. Thus, we found the use of educational robots to be effective in technologically advanced countries like China and the USA. The information gathered was shared with our teacher who became excited so we decided to experiment with the use of an educational robot to exhibit the findings at the 2023 Science and Technology Fair.

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 To gather data, we solicited the necessary assistance and guidance from our teacher and parents in collecting first-hand information. We did a multiplication Quiz and our scores were recorded. It was revealed that 61% or (11 out of 18) students scored less than 50%. Together with our teacher, we decided to create and use an educational robot to determine if our grades would be better. We utilized the educational robot to learn our multiplication tables through repetition, at our own pace, and convenience then redo the identical Quiz. To our surprise, 94% or (17 out of 18) students’ grades improved as seen in the data presented. The one student that scored less than 50% did not interact with our educational robot. The excellent scores encouraged and motivated us to construct our personal Minecraft robots as our learning buddies and assistant teacher to aid us in learning other skills and concepts.