U-Can-Do Math
Metamo4ic Math Center, when this story was published
The mission of the Metamo4ic Math Center (now U-Can-Do Math) is
to motivate and educate children in the St. Louis metropolitan area to
develop an appreciation of mathematics, gain deeper understandings of
mathematical concepts, and to learn how math works. The Metamo4ic Math
Center does this through a wide range of hands-on interactive exhibits
that allow students from pre-school through 8th grade to become actively
engaged in mathematics. The Math Center hosts student groups and their
teachers and individual students and their parents to explore the many
math-oriented exhibits.
Among the exhibits are those featuring
Bee-Bot and Pro-Bot robots. Director Vicki Adams reports “The new
Pro-Bot and Bee-Bot exhibits are a big hit! The kids are thinking and
working to program the Pro-Bots and Bee-Bots to follow their direction
to solve all sorts of math problems.”
The Math Center has stations where students can
control and program the Bee-Bot and Pro-Bot robots on their own. The
Bee-Bot stations feature pre-printed Bee-Bot mats with math themes such
as coins and different geometric shapes.
Pro-Bots, which can carry a pen and draw as they move, are used on a table with large sheets of paper on which students can draw by programming Pro-Bot. Students quickly master the commands and are inspired to be creative, but have to work out the math to teach Pro-Bot to create the design they want.
Students boost their math comprehension while having lots of fun!
Contact Information
| Name | Vicki Adams |
| Position | Director |
| School | U-Can-Do Math |
| info@ucandomath.us | |
| Website | http://ucandomath.us/ |
| Tags | Bee-Bot, Pro-Bot, Missouri, After School |
| Age | Preschool, Grades 1–8 |