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MindMaths is an EU-funded project, started in
2020, with partners from Portugal, Italy, Turkey and Latvia,
aiming to cope with math anxiety and problems with mathematics
learning in primary education, using educational robotics.
Throughout Flipped Learning Practices its focus is on initial
primary teacher training, designing learning activities and
resources to fulfill this challenge of preparing the future teachers
to use robotics to release math anxiety. This paper presents an
overview of the MindMaths Project and the main ideas underlying
its development in the Portuguese context. It frames the more
relevant learning issues in primary math education, presents the
most significant initiative of programing and robotics in the
Portuguese scene and discuss the potential that computational
thinking and robotics offer for learning meaningful mathematics
in the early years. It also presents a pilot study in a polytechnic
school with the participation of 20 students, future teachers,
discussing the main ideas of its development and results.
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Mathematics Education Robotics Computational Thinking