Skip to main content

Mathematics and Life 27 Improving school mathematics 12

                                      Improving school mathematics 12

My journey as a maths teacher 3


Mathematics is the science of recognising, understanding, appreciating, creating and using patterns in day to day life, business, sciences, work life, technology.


Good morning Friends,


I read early in my professional life that if you do something consistently for 3 weeks or 21 days, it becomes your habit and you start enjoying it.


With your good wishes, blessings and support, this blog Mathematics and Life, has reached its 27th day of posting. It is a pleasure to wish a good morning to all at 8 in the morning day after day.


Now that we are interacting everyday, I wish to make it more productive too.

Here is a small readership survey to know you and your choices better.


Please complete it and feel free to share at will with others who may be interested 


https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScClGbf4l7N6MKO6b9LlHPPXjFUOPQbLwQZebPoM3PV9cBvfQ/viewform


Many readers’ comments I read which do not have their name mentioned. Please included your name in the comments on the blog so that I may relate more closely and revert by name. 


Regards

Dr Prakash Moghe

+917489744223 (WhatsApp support)

drpnmoghe@gmail.com




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

My Journey as a Maths Teacher – Part 2

  🧒 From Grade 3 to Guiding Future Teachers It gives me immense pleasure to be of some help to my younger mathematics teaching colleagues like Shruti Goel, Laly, Preeti Garg, Misha Nambiar, Rajendra Paliwal , and many others—across subjects and across schools. But things weren’t always this way. 📘 The Indore Phase – Simplicity, Struggle, and Silent Growth After leaving Mumbai in 1988, I served as a school teacher at Choithram School, Indore , till 1992. I even taught Grades 3 to 5 in a single session . Yet, the spirit was always high. I loved taking classes, creating activity sheets, and even wrote articles I mailed to U.S. education journals —long before emails were common. If there was one shortcoming I admit, it was in checking large stacks of answer books. I often rationalised, “I’m a creative person, so it’s okay.” In hindsight, it wasn’t—but the honesty helped me grow. 🔄 The Decade of Churn (1988–1997) It was a whirlwind decade. Imagine this combination: Ph.D. ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Mathematics and Life 1 Introduction to the article series by Beyond Abacus

Purpose of the series is to explain various basic mathematics concepts in simple language connecting concepts to examples from life,business, science, day to day life. It will be our special emphasise to develop what Dr. Prakash Moghe calls the math - language interface. That is, showing similarity between the words used in daily language and mathematics like point, ray, interest and so on......     Audience This series of posts is for everyone who wants to understand, learn, revise, apply maths concepts, formulae, and wants to develop Problem Solving Approach, critical thinking, design thinking, and mathematical thinking. Agewise , from age 6 to the time one wants to learn / revise / teach basic maths will find these posts useful in their own ways. Frequency of posts At least one post a day has been planned. Length of posts Each post will be self content, so will be long enough to elaborate the point and short enough to keep the reader engaged. The reach Each post wil...
13 comments
Read more

Mathematics and Life 87 You know maths worksheet - 3

  You know maths worksheet - 3 Answers to You know maths worksheet 2 True  2. True 3. True 4. True 5. True 6. True 7. True This was just a very basic revision of geometry terminology. Since geometry is unfortunately neglected across the nation and across the curriculum too, I have designed just a concept brushing, easy going test. Today we will discuss some questions which are a mix of basic arithmetic and basic reasoning ability A leap year comes in 4 years. True / False My friend said I have a one acre plot. Seeing me confused he elaborated, it is nearly 45,000 sq ft. Was she right ? I went shopping and saw an item labelled 2000/-. I also read it had a discount of 10% for the festive season and an additional 10% discount on that purchase as it was their Foundation day. I paid 1600/-. Was I right ? A purchased one thing in 100/-. He sold it to B for 125/-, who sold it to C for 150/-. Who made more profit A or B ? Why ? Or both made the same profit ? Five men can complete a wo...
1 comment
Read more