To earn some extra cash over the past two years, I started tutoring students grade six to ten in math. By far, the hardest thing to teach them is how much more important it is to understand a concept than to simply memorize it. Memorizing can work well for some people, but once problems start becoming more complicated or presented in ways specifically designed to test understanding, my students would always struggle. In trying to find ways to use paper folded robots in education, we realized there was a great opportunity to make math more fun and tangible for students. In the same way that it's better to learn something by understanding, not memorizing, I have found it's always better to teach by doing, not telling. We have only developed lessons using the two wheeled car robot, but are working on finding lessons to teach using the other paper robots we have developed. 
One lesson that many students never get taught is where the number pi comes from. They use this number all throughout math and science, but never know what pi actually means. One of the lesson plans developed teaches students not just about what pi is, but has them actually find it using mesearements taken with the two wheeled car robot or even just with a paper circle on a paper clip. This lesson would hopefully give students both an experience and useful knowledge they won't forget as they continue through school. With more lesson plans and worksheets similar in style to this one, teachers will have more options and opportunities to fit in these hands on lessons into their curriculum