By Jonathan Frochtzwajg, The Sandy Post
Students in two new elective courses at Cedar Ridge Middle School are learning math and science through an innovative combination of traditional instruction and hands-on activities – and robots. In his Design and Modeling/Automation and Robotics course, Martin Bush is teaching students basic engineering concepts and skills such as measuring precisely, then having them apply those skills to, among other things, building and programming robots. Over in Kendra Payne’s Lego Robotics class, students are learning how to construct robots out of Legos and control them using a simple computer language. Both courses are aimed at teaching math and science in new ways that are not only engaging, but also show the subjects’ real-world applications.
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