Robots are used in early childhood education as a new instructional media, and educational activities using robots have been increased. So the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of educational activities using hands-on robots on logic-mathematical knowledge and creative problemsolving ability of young children. The total number of subjects was 43, and they were all five-year-old children. The experimental group and control group did activities with hands-on robots and general free activities, respectively. Results using ANCONA have shown that the activities with hands-on robots positively affected logic-mathematical knowledge and creative problem-solving ability of young children. These meaningful results have shown the possibility of early childhood educational use as the effectiveness of hands-on robots has come out.

• 김상언(Early Childhood Education, Kongju National University) | Sang-Un Kim
• 김상희(Early Childhood Education, Kongju National University) | Sang-Hee Kim Corresponding author
• 장지은(Educational Technology, Ewha Womans University) | Jee Eun Jang