Robotics Simulators in STEM education

Abstract

This article discusses STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education as an initiative from various countries around the world to address young people's lack of interest in careers in Science, Mathematics, Technology and Engineering. Understanding that STEM education must explore two or more of STEM themes, using transdisciplinarity, engaging the student in activities with this approach, we present the studies of an activity proposal integrating Engineering, Technology and Mathematics with the objective of learning Mathematics. In this activity students work with situations involving robotics and, for solution, use robotic arm simulators, developed in GeoGebra software, that simplify the real environment in which the robotic arm manipulates an object positioned in the plane, taking to organize strategies by identifying and applying mathematics, such as trigonometry with right triangle, trigonometric identities, inverse trigonometric functions, to solve the problem. An experiment was conducted to validate the simulators with undergraduate mathematics students from Universidade Luterana do Brasil (ULBRA) in the city of Canoas in Rio Grande do Sul. The results indicate that it is possible to integrate the STEM areas with the developed simulators, being indicated for activities with high school students (10th or 11th grade).

As Tecnologias Digitais da Informação e Comunicação como um recurso didático no Currículo de Matemática

“…Para a movimentação do braço robótico o aluno deve identificar o ângulo de rotação e o ângulo da articulação central do braço robótico que se converte na distância entre a base do braço robótico e a bola que o braço deve pegar (Homa, 2019). Esse movimento requer que o aluno utilize a representação polar, para que o braço robótico realize a ação de pegar a bola vermelha, Iaqchan Ryokiti Homa-Agostinho y Claudia Lisete Oliveira-Groenwald Artículo protegido por licencia Creative Commons: BY-NC-ND / Protected by Creative Commons: BY-NC-ND Uniciencia es una revista de acceso abierto/ Uniciencia is an Open Access Journal.…”

“…O comando calcula Cálculo do ângulo oposto ao segmento do triângulo que representa a distância da base à bola. Cálculo para a conversão de radianos em graus O ângulo de rotação é dado por Cálculo para a conversão de radianos em graus Homa (2019). Extraído de Robotics Simulators in STEM Education.…”

“…Simulador robótico 2 para aprendizagem da representação polar,Homa (2019). Extraído de Robotics Simulators in STEM Education.…”

STEAM Education in the View of the Bulgarian Teacher

“…The abbreviation STEM was first proposed by the American scientist R. Colwell in the 90s and began being actively used at the dawn of the 20th century [2]. Initiated in the United States, STEM training has spread to countries that have suffered from a lack of interest in STEM careers [3]. The credit for upgrading STEM to STEAM by introducing the arts into it goes to Georgette Yakman, an engineer and technology teacher who founded the STEAM educational framework in 2006 [4].…”

“…Research in the field has increased significantly since 2010, and a large number of new publications in the field of STEM also suggests that they have received recognition from many different journals as a hot and important subject area [1]. There is currently global concern about the decline in high school students' interest in a science-oriented career [3]. And without specialists to manage modern robotic and mechanized technologies, constantly entering all industries and areas of business, global technological progress would be unthinkable.…”