Long division problems are a nightmare for everyone- children (who have to solve them), teachers (who have to demonstrate solutions to such problems), and finally parents (who have to help their children with homework).
Most teachers prefer using (more…)
How about a fun puzzle whose inventor believes in ‘the art of teaching without teaching’? Derived from the Japanese word that means ‘cleverness’, KenKen or KenDoku is a logical puzzle invented by a Japanese math teacher Tetsuya Miyamoto in the year ’04.
KenKen combines the logic of (more…)
A few days back I had a friend and her husband drop in at my house. They wanted to have a discussion on the changes taking place in the current education system, schools in particular. They believed that the current schooling system was more productive than the one that existed in their time.
I could not deny the fact that most of us use our schooling system as a benchmark for measuring our kids’ schooling. However, there is no scientific proof that this formula would work. This led to (more…)
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