Özel Yeteneklilerin Eğitiminde Lego Ev3 Robotlarla Tamsayılarda İşlemlere Yönelik Bir Etkinlik Geliştirme Çalışması

Abstract

The study aims to overcome the distress of the gifted students by concretizing abstract mathematical terms and to remove the difficulties the students face when teaching addition and subtraction with whole numbers. In this study, it has been observed that gifted students have reached informal information about negative whole number operations when implementing the lesson plan about whole number operations via robots. The study group of the survey included two gifted sixth grade students who receive education at Şahinbey Science and Arts Centre in Gaziantep. This study designed as a qualitative study. In this study, the case study method was applied, in order to understand how the lesson plan designed with robots affects the data analysis process and prediction skills of the students. In this way, it was aimed to examine the development of students in detail. The lesson plan were specified according to the students. The lesson plan consisted of two parts. In the first part, we tried to implicate the students the location of zero in the number line and the existence of the negative numbers. In the second part, we made the students gain the mathematical logic of the addition and subtraction operations with whole numbers thanks to the activities and modellings by using robots. In conclusion that the gifted students were able to show the locations of the negative whole numbers in the number line thanks to the activities, and it was observed that the students were able to make meaning of the logic about operations with negative whole numbers. The movements of the robots were associated with the whole number of operations and the locations of the numbers. It was observed that the students were able to express negative numbers more easily thanks to the robots.