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Summer Intrigue: Small Robots

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This summer I saw this video on twitter.   It got me thinking about how I might be able to use small, durable, classroom robots in my high school math classroom.  I could easily do something like this to make the geometry lessons where you find missing angles and sides of polygons more interesting. Luckily, while I was searching, I came across a content to win one robot.  I was chosen and should be receiving the bot shortly.  That will give me first hand experience with at least one of the choices. My plan is to finish up some research and choose a robot.  Then I'll be applying for a grant to get a class set of these cuties. Here are the robots that I've researched so far.  If you have used any of them and have feedback, please let me know. Dash and Dot These bots get great reviews online.  They look sturdy and there is a good k-5 curriculum ($60/year).  There is no high school curriculum, but I could make it work.  They...