TY - JOUR
AU - Mauch, Elizabeth
AB - Using Technological Innovation to Improve the Problem-Solving Skills of Middle School Students Educators’ Experiences with the LEGO Mindstorms Robotic Invention System ELIZABETH MAUCH familiarize them with the system’s operation and bene- n fall 1998, members of the mathematics depart- I ment and the Institute for Interactive Technologies at fits, then encourage them to use it in their own class- Bloomsburg University met to discuss a problem of rooms. To that end, the university used a substantial mutual concern: students’ difficulty determining the portion of the grant to purchase ten Mindstorms sys- tems and then donated them to the Central Susquehan- best way to begin to solve a problem, even when it is na Intermediate Unit for classroom teachers to borrow. derived from applications of simple mathematical con- During summer 1999, a group of eight middle cepts. Students often voiced feelings of frustration and confusion when approaching a word problem and did- school teachers from as many school districts enrolled in the resulting course, “Implementing LEGO Mind- n’t seem to fully understand the problem-solving process. In an attempt to find a nontraditional method storms in the Middle School Classroom.” The course to help students understand the importance of proved to 
TI - Using Technological Innovation to Improve the Problem-Solving Skills of Middle School Students: Educators' Experiences with the LEGO Mindstorms Robotic Invention System
JF - "The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas"
DO - 10.1080/00098650109599193
DA - 2001-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/using-technological-innovation-to-improve-the-problem-solving-skills-jpNM4Z0xwS
SP - 211
EP - 213
VL - 74
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -