Prepared by Sena Çetin

Course: EDS 206

Instructor: Dr. Kemal Akoğlu
07.02.2020

1-) Robots Teacher in Education

Robots replacing teaching is a good thing – yes or no?
According to Varkey Foundation’s example, robots are more much efficient than humans at teaching.

While teachers are forced to deliver the majority of learning in a whole class setting, artificial
intelligence can deliver tailored learning, carefully evaluating every response to calibrate when to stick
with the current topic and when to move onto the next.

Ofcourse, A teacher’s role is not just to teach. A teacher is also looking after the students in the class,
spotting those experiencing difficulties and supporting them as necessary. In this sense it is one of the
most human jobs we have.

2-) Pierre de Fermat

Pierre de Fermat was born in August 17, 1601 who was a French lawyer at the Parliament of Toulouse, France,
and an amateur mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus. He
is remembered for his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of
curved lines, which is analogous to that of the then unknown differential calculus, and his research into number
theory. He made notable contributions to analytic geometry, probability, and optics. He is best known for
Fermat's Last Theorem, which he described in a note at the margin of a copy of Diophantus' Arithmetic. Fermat
was the first person known to have evaluated the integral of general power functions. His formula was helpful
to Newton, and then Leibniz, when they independently developed the fundamental theorem of calculus.
Together with René Descartes, Fermat was one of the two leading mathematicians of the first half of the 17th
century. He died on January 12, 1665.
 My Reflection for this week lesson
 Firstly, we discussed which one is more efficient way; robot teachers or human teachers in education.
We couldn’t reach a common conclusion. For that reason, we decided to research for real knowledges.
 We discussed some applications which are useful and helpful for mathematic.(tinker plot, GeoGebra ..)
 I’ve learnt an important mathematician in this lesson. I think, it was sad not to know him. We talked
about his researches about math. Teacher Kemal told us his myth story when he was solving a
mathematical operation at one night. That was so impressive story for me.

REFERENCES

1. https://www.educationandskillsforum.org/fr/news-blogs/robots-replacing-teachers-is-a-
good-thing-yes-or-no
2. https://www.sciencesource.com/archive/Pierre-de-Fermat--French-Mathematician-
SS2723409.html