Applies to: Subject: Mathematics Overview Do birds know how to count, Ma’am? This question by a child of class 8 triggered my thoughts on ‘number sense’. This led to an interesting class session which I wish to share here with the fellow teachers. The basic...
Teachers’ Diary_Modelling Scutoid As a mathematics teacher, teaching solid shapes and their surface areas and volumes to 10th grade students are a less effortless job as compared to other topics. Even the syllabus concentrates on the numerical skills of the...
Applies to: Subjects: Mathematics, Statistics Board Grade(s) CBSE Grade 10, ICSE Grade 9 Overview Imagine a game played with two players and two dice: if the biggest number rolled is one, two, three, or four, player 1 wins. If the biggest number rolled is five or six,...
Applies to: Subjects: Mathematics, Statistics Board Grade(s) CBSE Grade 10, ICSE Grade 9 Overview What do Euclid, 12-year-old Einstein, and American President James Garfield have in common? They all came up with elegant proofs for the famous Pythagorean theorem, one...
Applies to: Subjects: Mathematics, Statistics Board Grade(s) CBSE Grade 10, ICSE Grade 9 Overview In the world of math, many strange results are possible when we change the rules. But thereâs one rule that most of us have been warned not to break: donât divide by...
