Early Child Spatial Development: A Teaching Experiment with Programmable Robots

Abstract

This paper discusses mathematical task-design for implementation in a collaborative environment (ACODESA teaching method) where the activity with paper, pencil and technology play a central role in the learning of mathematics. The use of problem situations in the mathematics classroom under a sociocultural framework requires careful mathematical task-design to develop in the classroom, to promote a diversified thinking and allow a balance between activity, pencil and paper and technology within a framework of activity theory. Our task-design approach is general, but we are exemplifying with tasks for teaching mathematics at the beginning of secondary school.