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How to Teach Classroom Mathematics
Some years ago, I got appointment as a Head of Pre-Entry Science Course Department at the Technical University in Balgravia. The Department enrolled the best students from different high school of the country. The objective of the Department was to find students’ gaps in their knowledge of science subjects and upgrade them to university standards. It was pleasure to work in an exotic country on such challenging issues and for a such noble goal.
Once, when I passed by a classroom where mathematics was being taught by a colleague, I heard the voice of the students counting: 4 597, 4 598, 4 599…At that time, I did not pay much attention to it. But after three days, from behind the doors of the same classroom, I heard: 13 127, 13 128, 13 129…
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Maths in Life
‘Mathematics is for the intellectual giants’, is the common belief. This is true as far as the subject mathematics is concerned. But, looking from a different angle, one can find that leading a life without mathematics is impossible, irrespective one’s intellectual level. When mathematics is presented as a complicated cluster of theories and formulas which are difficult to crack and digest, common man is never attracted towards it. But if he understands things closely, the picture changes. Perhaps many may start loving it. That is one reason why mathematics is called the servant of all sciences.(It is also known as the Queen of all sciences).
For an ordinary man the knowledge of mathematics is very often limited to numbers and forms. A new born baby gradually gets familiarized with forms from his (or her) contacts. His mother’s face may be the form that impress him first. The first geometrical form is printed in him through this acquaintance. Similar faces might attract his attention, but not other faces.
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Fun Cool Math Trivia Kids Will Love
Kids will surely love knowing about fun cool Math trivia, those interesting facts that we all did not know or that it exists at all. Getting into a discussion about these trivia will surely liven up any Math lesson and would be added information for any student. Kids will also enjoy knowing something that other kids and even their parents would be hardly ever know.
Here are some fun cool Math trivia kids will love to tell and would easily remember:
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