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Arguments about what mathematics education is for, problems worth chewing on, and the things children made along the way.
Which dice will you choose?
This is a simple game of dice among 2 players. There are 3 dice, but are a bit different from the no…
How many prime numbers are there?
You learnt about prime numbers today. Oh..The numbers which have only 2 factors. 1 and the number it…
The Jumping frog
A frog starts along a number line starting at position 0. It takes a lot of jumps. The first jump ta…
The travelling knight!
Yes, the knight loves to travel. But not twice to the same place! The knight wants to move from posi…
The dark knights!
I am assuming you are aware of how a knight moves on a chessboard. The following image will make it …
Oh! the numbers you can make…
Imagine you have a broken calculator. Maybe you dropped it or your dog chewed up the keys. Suppose n…
The light bulb problem
This post is for the students of Mathematical Curiosities, the Creative Math Live Online Program. Wh…
Help the bee find its way!
The initial position of a Bee is shown in the Beehive. It can move in only one general direction, na…
Can you find all the possible areas?
We have a grid and many squares can be made. Can you determine all the different values the area of …
Which of these has the maximum shaded area?
Which of these squares has the maximum shaded (purple) area? How can you best explain your answer?…
The broken board and rectangular tiles
A chessboard with a twist. Can we cover this board with the rectangular tiles.…
Just 1’s and 2’s
In how many ways can you represent a number as a sum of 1’s and 2’s?…
In how many ways can you paint the tiles?
On a shelf, there are 8 tiles which need to be painted. We have 2 colours, yellow and black.…
The ‘Shortest Road Track’ Problem!
The dots below represent 4 cities at the corners of a square. The task is to connect these cities to…
Why do we say ‘6×6’ as the square of 6?
We all know 6×6 is 36. Why do we call it a square of 6. Can you explain.…
Oh! The Perfect Ruler – Only for Math lovers
This post is by Jason Moses, who has been an enthusiastic explorer in the Mathematical Curiosities P…
Explorations in Euler’s formula
In our explorations with the relationship between the vertices, edges and faces of a 3D solid, as a …
Ideas and Approaches for ‘Paint the tiles’ Problem!
Many readers have responded by submission form, Email, Messages and comments. Here, I am sharing the…
Ideas for ‘The Shortest Road Track’ Problem
Here are some of the ideas received for the problem.…
A picture I shall never forget! The proof of the Arithmetic-Geometric Mean Inequality.
When the Hungarian mathematician George Polya came across this problem, he casually drew a picture a…
Why 89 is the real deal? The 11th Fibonacci number.
There’s something that makes this number really unqiue. Can you figure out the reason?…
Don’t rob kids of their creativity!
Math and Creativity! Really? That’s how many people would react, mostly due to the kind of experienc…
The Love for Learning
We are all born explorers. As a child, we are curious to discover and understand the world around us…
Play, exploration and creativity
I have taught Math in a Teach For India classroom for 2 years. I have spent a year on innovation and…
Beautiful explanations and perspectives
Mathematics is the art of explanation.…
Math Classes : Urgency, Accuracy and Appreciation
As a Math teacher, I had been asked a few times the question of why the kids in my classes who are d…
Evolution and history of numbers – Introducing number systems.
Numbers and counting have not always been the way we see them. The numbers which we use today are ju…
Creating your own Number system
Students will further explore and start creating their own number systems. When kids design their ow…
Designing number systems (Worktime)
Kids will work in groups to make charts and practice for the presentation of their number systems.…
Student Presentations and Our current number system
Here, student present their own number systems for the first half of the class. Then, we explore our…
Lesson 5 – The meaning and need of arithmetic operations
In this lesson, through a variety of discussions on simple real life problems, the idea and need of …
Lesson 6 – Problem solving session
Discussion and work time for word problems involving basic arithmetic operations.…
Lesson 7 – Kenken Puzzles for arithmetic operations
Kenken Puzzles are a great way to build basic arithmetic and exploratory skills. There can be many p…
Lesson 9 – Multiples of a number
We may not realize but we use multiples all the time in counting and grouping of objects. When we pa…
Lesson 10 – Common Multiples and LCM
We discuss the problem of super eclipse on various planets which have more than one moon. Keeping th…
Lesson 11 – Divisibilty rules
Students build the skill of trial and improvement, problem solving and then we see that there could …
Lesson 12 – Factors of a number
We begin by finding how numbers can be formed by multiplying other numbers. Then we pictorially repr…
Lesson 13 – Factors of a number
Applying concepts of factors in different scenarios and a game.…
Lesson 14 – Prime numbers
Prime numbers are the building blocks of all the whole numbers. This makes them special. Mathematica…
Lesson 15 – Common Factors and HCF
Through various problems, students discover how we are using common factors in many situations, and …
Lesson 16 – Prime factorization
In this lesson, we mostly learn the procedures to break numbers into prime numbers, also developing …
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