| Summary: | A qualitative and comparative analysis is performed regarding the possible consequences of
the introduction in the school curriculum of 10-12 years old children, of Robotics and Applied
Mathematics in Movement Transmission (AMMT) courses, respectively. The research has been done
at the Gymnazial School Number 195, from Bucharest, during two scholar years (2017-2019). Each
class had 36 students and the two hours Robotics / AMMT courses had a weekly frequency. Direct
observation, interviews of the children and parents, together with the class and individual journals,
where children noted their opinions during the two years, are analyzed and interpreted. The results
show better scholar performances of the children following Robotics courses, in respect to the ones
following AMMT ones and a greater attraction of the children in Robotics. Further, a quantitative
evaluation regarding the improvement of mathematical performances of children is presented,
given a very similar level of the two classes at the beginning of the research in respect to their
average Maths scores. The analysis involved several statistical parameters, like the average scores
obtained at Math tests, their variances, the evolution of the children with the lowest performances
and the number of the maximum scores in each class. All of them suggest the Robotics course
efficiency in increasing mathematical performances level of young children is superior to the one of
the AMMT course, recommending the introduction of such courses in the school curriculum
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