Portal:Mathematics
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Welcome to the Mathematics Portal Mathematics is a language - many mathematicians have described the process of mathematics as art and poetry. Bertrand Russell once wrote, “Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty, a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, sublimely pure and capable of a stern perfection, such as only the greatest art can show.” Other mathematicians and scientists have often written about the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in explaining the world around. Notwithstanding the poetry and the beauty, a functional knowledge of mathematics and computing is an essential skill for transacting in society. However, to appreciate the poetry of this language or to transact, one must learn the grammar and acquire the vocabulary. And school mathematics is largely about acquiring the skills to communicate and develop the love for the language. This portal is for students and teachers to engage with this language and build those skills. |
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Classroom resources This section will feature resources for classroom teaching including online, digital and other hands-on activities. We will begin with Geometry - triangles and will be adding resources every week.
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Famous Mathematicians Here is a video on Srinivasa Ramanujam and his magic square shared by Sunitha Madam. |
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Interesting read In this very interesting article, "engineer-mathematician" Dr Barbara Oakley talked about how mastering procedural fluency, combined with language fluency helped her master mathematics, even when she began learning advanced math at the age of 26! How I rewired my brain to become fluent in math Barbara Oakley is a professor of engineering at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, and the author of, most recently, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra). She is also co-instructor, with Terrence Sejnowski, the Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute, of one of the world’s largest online courses, “Learning How to Learn,” with Coursera. |
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Interesting news If mathematics is a language, then how does it seem to describe all the observed things in the universe from helical DNA structures to black holes. Mathematicians and scientists have talked about the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics. So is mathematics inherent in the universe or is it part of the way the human brain is wired? This question is being studied and some recent research can be accessed here. |
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Book Shelf A School Geometry By Hall and Stevens. Must read book for all the math teachers. Costs only Rs80 and is available through Flipcart and infibeam. |
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Resources for hands-on activities This is a collection of hands-on activities that can be used for Vidyagama program. Check regularly for updates. Romping in Numberland is an extremely interesting book where you can find some simple activities for introducing the joy of numbers. This is a great resource for bridge course or even for students to explore numbers and will help them in their number skills and operations. Click here to download. |
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From the forum Some interesting exchanges from the STF mailing forum. To join the forum, visit this group here.
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The squre root of whole number is always less than the that square number ( ex; sqare root of 25 is 5, 36 is 6 etc) but in decimal it is reverse (ex; sqare root 0.8 is o.89) what is the reason? Shared by Suchetha SS, GHS Thyamagondulu. CarMetal is a Geogebra like free software A description of another graphic tool like Geogebra. Shared by Tharanath Achar, GPUC Belthangady. Math teaser about an arithmetic progression P th term of an AP is Q and Q th term of an AP is P . Then find PQ th term ?....Shared by Mallikarjun Sudi, GHS Yelheri and Sneha Titus, APU. [Read More] Pi Day Which day is Pi Day? [Find out] Trigonometry using Geogebra Basics of Trigonometry using Geogebra, lesson shared by Radha Narve, GHS Begur. Click [here] to read more. |
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