Category: November 2024

Hands-on math

Suma Vivekanandan
A simple hands-on activity helped Suma Vivekanandan teach Class 4 students all about circles, from radius to diameter and everything in between.

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Mathematical treasures

Sheela Iyer
What if students didn’t have to memorize multiplication tables? Sheela Iyer writes about the array method that will make multiplication easier. Curious? Read more.

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Doing math with Nature

Sasmita Sahoo
Exploring the natural world can turn everyday learning into a math adventure! Sasmita Sahoo shares fun and simple ways children can learn math concepts – like counting, symmetry, and shapes – using natural materials such as leaves, pebbles, and seeds.

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Perceptual numbers

Hetal Tarpada
Subitizing, or the ability to instantly recognize small numbers without counting, is a key step in developing children’s math skills. Hetal Tarpada offers an easy, hands-on activity using dot charts to boost young learners’ number sense.

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The lime water mystery

S Muralidharan
Science is best experienced. Teachers of the subject have to understand this fact and increase the ratio of experiential learning to theoretical teaching in the classroom.

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Inclusivity in learning

Ranjeeta Prajapati
The Mahabaratha prods you, pushes you, inspires you, makes you question and in the process leaves you with new learnings. A story from the Mahabaratha inspired this author to think about inclusivity in the classroom.

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