Dangerous times, dangerous spaces

Usha Raman

The recent Peshawar tragedy has forced us to ask some questions. Have places of education become unsafe? Are

January 2015

Negative thinking for positive results

Sinny Mole

Rules in math learned without understanding are the root cause of many misconceptions that children have. For instance,

January 2015

Fun with patterns and ideas

Yasmin Jayathirtha

Have you tried puzzle templates, anagrams, crossword puzzles, mazes and word searches to make your chemistry class both

First Steps

No mantra for motivation

Aditi Mathur and Ratnesh Mathur

Does external motivation really work? According to the authors, it rarely works and instead, they

January 2015

Round and round about

Sheel

Can you think of a number of objects that are round in shape? If you care to look around,

Ask and Answer

Short on time

Manaswini Sridhar
How can children at the primary level be taught life skills and study skills that will guide

January 2015

A slide, a saviour, a solution

Geetha Durairajan
A small, yet important incident in a park where children play sparks an idea for this article

January 2015

Before the bell rings

Wrapping up a lesson at the end of a class can sometimes be disappointing. More often than not, children are

January 2015

Multi-threaded math

Ragini Ramalingam
Is mathematics only about numbers? Is it too abstract? How can one get interested in this subject?

January 2015

Save the Frogs

Geetha Iyer

India has a rich diversity of frogs, but they are fast disappearing, and unless some steps are taken