Hands-on Workshops

Facilitator: Participating teachers from Kerala

GeoGebra is a powerful tool for teaching and exploring mathematics.  It is freely available and is useful for interactive learning and teaching various areas in mathematics: geometry, algebra, statistics and calculus, and enjoyable at the same time. Each session would consist of introduction to a set of new tools and various activities which will help participants understand the tools as well as their usages. The workshop will be interactive and hands-on.

Facilitator: Ms. Sangeeta Gulati

Desmos (https://www.desmos.com/) is an online platform that provides math teachers and their students an amazing wealth of apps and engaging resources. 

In this session, In addition to the Graphing Calculator of Desmos,we'll explore Desmos's curated teacher resources and how they powerfully transform the dynamics of teaching and learning within math class. We'll also explore Desmos Activity Builder and learn how to start building our own activities to engage students. In addition, we'll learn how to use Desmos's teacher dashboard to formatively assess all students' progress and provide meaningful feedback in real time. 

Facilitator: (V. V. M. S. Chandramouli)

Widely admired for both its technical prowess and elegant ease of use, Mathematica provides a single integrated, continually expanding system that covers the breadth and depth of technical computing—and is seamlessly available in the cloud through any web browser, as well as natively on all modern desktop systems 

Facilitator: Manjushri Dhume (LearnQuest)

One of the biggest challenges for school mathematics teachers is to get students to understand concepts and terminology and later, apply the concepts learnt so that they can retain them. Origami is a low cost, hands- on solution for meeting the above requirement. Every fold that we make forms various angles and the crease patterns made by the folds have geometry embedded in them. Origami offers a quick and fun way to discover it. Not only do students get engaged in the process, the hands-on approach develops a deeper understanding of concepts. This workshop is designed to enable school teachers from standard 3 to 10 to teach various mathematical concepts using origami. The workshop will specifically cover lessons that will guide students to - notice and understand the meaning of geometrical terms and various constructions like angle bisector, perpendicular bisector, median, line of symmetry, etc. - understand and apply concepts like area, perimeter, volume, fractions, percentages, ratios, etc. In this workshop, teachers will be guided to make 3 different models and discover the maths as they fold. This will be followed by a discussion on practical suggestions for using this method in schools.

Facilitator: Prof. Sunil Bajaj, SCERT Haryana

Mathematical games, puzzles and stories involving numbers are useful to enable children to make connections between the logical functioning of their everyday lives to that of mathematical thinking and to build upon their everyday understandings (NCERT,2006). Mathematical puzzles can engage students in rich mathematical explorations and logical reasoning in the classroom (Evered, 2001).

In the session, I would illustrate the extensions and variations of a Japanese Puzzle- ‘KenKen’ named as Harbans Puzzle and then would discuss students’ responses to these puzzles as well as the outreach of this puzzle in secondary school Mathematics classrooms of Govt schools of Haryana, India.

I would also highlight its potential to use it with students of all ages. Further, how different puzzles can be created with various concepts existing in the mathematics curriculum. Why these puzzles are easy to adopt by students and teachers of all grades. Further, I would describe the hidden patterns in the puzzles and the key questions that teachers may ask in the classroom to foster explorations and creation of puzzles by students themselves.