Category Archives: Maths
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The RESET – A true story of ASSET’s influence on a teacher
By the year 2017, I had established myself as a full-time mathematics faculty in one of Hyderabad’s most prestigious schools. One day, the school announced the launch of a diagnostic [...] -
TECHNOLOGY BASED INTERACTIVE LEARNING
Technology in education has a great potential to improve the learning outcomes of students. However, the results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) study[1] [...] -
Decimals Matter!
At the 1984 Summer Olympics which was held in Los Angeles, U.S., P.T. Usha missed the bronze medal at the 400-metre hurdle race by only 0.01 seconds. A huge disappointment for the [...] -
Van Hiele Model Of Geometrical Thinking: What Are Our Students’ Learning Levels?
Do you notice students struggling with geometric proofs and theorems in higher grades and many of them rote learn these proofs and reproduce them in the exam without having a proper [...] -
Technology For Learning – A Case Of Step-By-Step Solver In Mindspark For Mathematics
What does the student response data of the following question in Ei ASSET[1] say? What are the errors committed by students? 2u – 9 = 12 – u. What is u? Students make [...] -
Demystifying The Science of Making High Quality Assessment Questions
This interview was originally published by the Central Square Foundation (CSF) in November, 2021. ___ The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 lays down an important goal: improve [...] -
Creating Good, Innovative MCQs
National Education Policy 2020 lists down several initiatives to improve learning levels among students, especially reforms in assessments. The Central Board of Secondary Education [...] -
Testing rote learning using textbook questions vs real learning using unfamiliar questions
It is often found that among students getting good grades in exams gets a higher priority over ensuring that they are learning with understanding. Teachers emphasise concepts and types [...] -
Teaching Practices for 21st Century Learners
Background Anybody who has ever taught in a formal teaching capacity would agree with me when I say that teaching is one of the most complex and difficult tasks that one can do. Add to [...] -
Enabling Efficient Learning – Asking Ourselves: What, Why and How
Apart from effecting a devastating human tragedy, Covid has transformed the fundamental nature of our interactions with each other. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the lives of [...]