Research work in Artificial Intelligence suggests that building compute r programs is a particularly good way of understanding a complex process suc h as understanding natural language or interpreting visual scenes (see, fo r example, Influenced by this view, we decided to try to find out if children' s understanding of classroom mathematics can be improved if they teach th e computer to solve mathematical problems . For this work, we use our own dialect of a simple but powerful interactive programming language, calle d LOGO . Superficially, it might seem that we are merely advocating tha t children should be taught computer programming -but this is already don e in schools in the U .K ., so what is new about the project? The answer t o this question should become clear when we see how the language is used .
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Howe et al. (1978) studied this question.