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"We encounter mathematics and mathematical concepts in our everyday lives. The foundation for later mathematical skills lies in the good development of pre-mathematical ideas in a child’s preschool years. In this paper we will discuss partial results of the study entitled “Mathematics and Reading Preschool Literacy (MRPL1)”, in which 119 teachers from 72 kindergartens from different parts of the Czech Republic participated. The focus will be mainly on the use of modern robotic tools based on the trend of incorporating digital technologies into preschool education. Targeted work with these tools can significantly contribute to the development of children’s spatial orientation, their numerical skills, logical reasoning and algorithmizing. In the application part we will focus specifically on the possibilities of educational use of the robotic toy Bee Bot. The research has revealed that the need to develop children’s mathematical literacy in kindergartens is still neglected by teachers. While teachers do acknowledge its importance, they themselves do not know how to develop children’s mathematical pre-literacy. In their own practice, they prefer the children to play spontaneously and fill in pre-printed worksheets. It is encouraging that the teachers have shown interest in the new ideas. Activities related to Bee Bot interested them. Overall, however, they lack sufficient methodological support. Based on the findings, educational activities with Bee Bot have been included as part of the undergraduate education of kindergarten teachers at the Faculty of Education of Palacký University in Olomouc." |
