title: Use of robotics kits for the enhancement of metacognitive skills of mathematics: a possible approach.
abstract: The present study is aimed at analyzing the process of building and programming robots as a metacognitive tool of mathematics. Quantitative data from a study performed on a sample of students attending an Italian secondary school are described. Results showed that robotics activities may be used as a new metacognitive environment allowing students to improve their attitude towards mathematics, and to increase their attitude to reflect on themselves and on their own learning, and their higher-level control components, such as forecasting, planning, monitoring and evaluation exercises and problems related to implementation.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Biomedicina Sperimentale e Neuroscienze Cliniche, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy. fillipolapaglia@gmail.com
authors.forename: Filippo
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: La Paglia
authors.forename: Rosalinda
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rizzo
authors.forename: Daniele
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: La Barbera
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics / Q000193:education*; D012371:Robotics; D020377:Self Efficacy