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Problem Posing in Mathematics

Dear All, A famous quote about Isidor Isaac Rabi (born American physicist and Nobel laureate recognized in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance ) “My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. She would say, "Did you ask a good question today?" That difference--asking good questions--made me become a scientist.” We all are aware that Problem Solving is the focus of learning and teaching of Mathematics. However the problems have to be exciting, non-routine and challenging. In order to get thrill and excitement in Mathematics, students and teachers have to be trained not only in problem solving, but also in Problem Posing in Mathematics . Posing problems in Mathematics is not as difficult as it may appear, if students can learn some techniques for posing problems. As suggested by late Prof. J. N. Kapur, some technique...

Mathematics Movement (Phase II) at S. D. Public School, Pitam Pura

Dear All, S. D. Public School, Pitam Pura in collaboration with NCSTC, Department of Science and Technology is organizing Mathematics Movement (Phase II) from 3 rd to 5 th October 2013. There will be many sessions for the teachers and the students. The main focus of the event will be enhancing student’s skills in various areas of Mathematics. The following students from our school will be attending these three day programme. 1.       Sarthak Jain              V Class 2.       Nihit Bhatia               V Class 3.       Shivansh Dogra        VI Class 4.       Nikhil Dahiya           VI Class 5.       Vaibhav Gupta   ...

Open-Day session at CIC, Delhi University

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Dear All, I am pleased to share that Cluster Innovation Centre; University of Delhi organized an Open-Day session on 18 September 2013 to interact with School Principals, Mathematics Teachers/ Academic Heads to focus on the issues and concerns in School Mathematics Education and how to bring into university academia and research community together to address these issues in more tangible and concrete ways. I joined the forum as a panelist. The panel discussion addressed the critical issues in school mathematics education. The session was presided by the Honourable Vice Chancellor of University of Delhi,  Prof. Dinesh Singh. All the Photographs of the session can be viewed here . Here is the presentation used by me on the topic- What Successful Math‘s Teachers must do!

Class XII First Term Exam(2013-14) Mathematics - SOLUTIONS

Dear class XII Students, Hope you all must have done your maths paper well. Here is the Question Paper . Please check out the Solutions here (Right click the above link and choose the option "Save link/target as") ALL THE BEST

Information regarding Regional Mathematics Olympiad 2013

Dear All, Registration for RMO 2013 is now open for Delhi region. Students of class 9 and above of NCR may apply. This includes students of schools in Delhi, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon & NOIDA. DATE: Sunday 1 December 2013 TIME: 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM To find out more about Mathematics Olympiad and stages, please visit the   HBCSE website . For previous years papers, click   here . In case of any difficulty, send e-mail to rmo.delhi@gmail.com. Amit Sir