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PegBlocks: a Learning Aid for the Elementary Classroom

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Ben Piper and Hiroshi Ishii. 2002. PegBlocks: a learning aid for the elementary classroom. In CHI ’02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’02). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 686–687. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/506443.506546

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In this paper we describe the imp lementation of PegBlocks – an educational toy that can be used to illustrate some basic physics principles to elementary school students. 

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