Math Lab

eGuru Math Lab is one of the latest innovative offerings, from NIIT, for schools. These labs are aimed at enabling school students to learn and explore mathematical concepts and verify mathematical facts and theorems using technology tools. It offers Multiple Teaching and Learning Aids comprising of Technology Applications, Videos, Manipulative, Measuring Instruments, Tables and Charts, to schools based on the three pillars of ‘Imagination, Investigation and Interaction’. NIIT eguru ‘Math Lab’ provides an opportunity to students to understand, internalize, discover and verify the basic mathematical and geometrical concepts through concrete objects and situations, thus building interest and confidence in students learning the subject. The laboratory also allows and encourages the students to think, discuss amongst themselves as well as with the teacher, and assimilate concepts.

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Background to Math Lab

Mathematics helps children make sense of the world around them and find meaning in the physical world. Through mathematics, children learn to understand their world in terms of numbers and shapes. They learn to reason, to connect ideas, and to think logically. Mathematics is more than the rules and operations we learned in school. It is about connections and seeing relationships in everything we do.

Mathematics has always been a very important subject to understand the physical phenomena around us. So mathematics as a tool is indispensable in our daily life. Unfortunately across the globe, the phobia for this subject is very prominent. The present education system has made a 360° shift from learning mathematics by obedience to learning by applied reasoning. This means children learn best when they are interested and even excited about what they are doing. So give your children many opportunities to see and hear different things, and to move about and play with things they can touch. Let them collect things, and show you and demonstrate concepts in their own way. Encourage children to think and show respect for their thinking and accept their point of view. Also, ask them questions that allow them to explore different ways of solving problems. But remember, it is not just the doing but the thinking that promotes learning.

Taking into consideration the national aspirations and expectations reflected in the recommendations of the National Curriculum Framework developed by NCERT, the Central Board of Secondary Education had initiated a number of steps to make teaching and learning of mathematics at schools activity-based and experimentation oriented. The guidelines are

Foster mathematical awareness, skill building, positive attitudes and learning by doing
Learning concepts using concrete objects
Verify math facts and properties using models, measurement and activities
Individualized and peer learning centers: Discovery, Enrichment, Remedial and Reinforcement
Teachers to explain and demonstrate many concepts using charts, models, aids and activities

Objectives of Math Lab

Students will be able to:

Explore, reflect and interpret ideas presented through variety of medium
Display intellectual curiosity and initiative to acquire, process and interpret information
Use variety of strategies and perspectives in solving problems individually and collaboratively
Frame and test Hypothesis, Identify, describe, formulate and reformulate problems
Describe and interpret dfficult point of views and distinguish facts from opinions

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Features and Benefits of Math Lab

Features	Benefits
Manipulative, Charts	To foster mathematical awareness, skill building, positive attitudes and learning by doing Learning concepts using concrete objects Verify math facts and properties using models, measurement and activities
Math Ambience	Fostering individualized and peer learning
Multimedia Content	Teachers can easily explain and demonstrate many abstract concepts
Geometer’s Sketchpad Software	Students can construct geometrical figures and explore the mathematical properties by interacting with the tools
Stakeholders’ Benefits Chart
Student Benefits	Understanding and reasoning, learning using concrete objects Improving Confidence in learning by doing Joyful learning improves attention span Visualization of concepts leads to easier learning. Adaptive assessment with continuous feedback system
Teacher Benefits	Facilitated Instruction – Learner Centered Help in Individual attention, introduction to new types of pedagogy like activities-based learning, Project Based Learning Adapting to constructivist approach like NCF 2005, continuous assessment system focusing on learning and not on testing Pre-Made Charts, Activity Lists, Content to teach activities
School Benefits	One-Stop Solution for Setting up Math Lab Comprehensive Skill Development Program for Teachers to Implement NCF 2005 Backed by high level of Support Services for Progress and usage Yearly Contests to showcase creativity of Students