Greetings,
Our 6th grade math teachers teacher math with the IQ robot. I am looking for help with creating a lesson that will help teach the following objectives:
1.Define and recognize inequalities in the form x > c or x < c.
Recognize and interpret inequalities as representing constraints or conditions.
Represent inequalities on number lines.
Hi there!
In terms of defining inequalities and using them as representing constraints or conditions, the Distance Sensor would be something cool for students to play with.
One of the basic projects you can have students create is something using the and blocks in VEXcode! Those blocks use inequalities as Booleans, meaning they report True or False. I have a screenshot below from the CS Level 1 Blocks course with VEXcode VR, but you can do the same type of activities with the IQ BaseBot with the Distance Sensor mounted to the front.
This lesson in particular breaks down how the blocks work together to create the instructions for the robot where it drives forward until the inequality is True. That is the condition that must be met for the robot to move onto the next block in the stack, which is Stop Driving in this image.
This VEX IQ Activity - At A Distance would be a great base that you could weave that specific math instruction into! Or you could add additional Cubes on the field and create a whole maze like the activity in the CS Level 1 blocks course.
