Tag: numbers

“Concepts are caught, skills are taught”

Vaishali Lakhlani
The wisdom of P K Srinivasan shaped Vaishali Lakhani’s journey in creating a dynamic math club for students. Through hands-on activities like origami angle bisection and magic squares, students explored mathematical concepts beyond textbooks.

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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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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 magic and meaning of palindromes

Rajesh Kumar Thakur
A palindrome is a number, word, or sentence that reads the same forwards and backwards. Apart from generating interest and curiosity in readers, palindromes might serve another purpose. Thakur writes that palindromic numbers are seen as symbols of balance and duality, with significance in ancient Chinese, Hindu, and Greek beliefs.

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