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Ozobots and Piecewise Functions

It's always fun when you can bring robots into your math class, and I was able to do this recently! The gist: students were given a large sheet of paper with a coordinate plane. They were tasked with creating a city and having the Ozobot travel around their city completing commands based on student code. The path of the Ozobot was a piecewise function and students created equations based on the functions. All this was completed in pairs or groups of three. I was short on time because the Ozobots were only available for one class period, so students did not have enough time to come with a written storyline, but each group was able to verbally explain the path of their robot. One group actually chose to use "Stranger Things", Hawkins, as their city- and even explained that they knew the function wasn't one-to-one! This project is a fantastic way to get students engaged, it has a little something for everyone. All students were 100% engaged for the duration of the class