The Learning Teacher

Creativity is the ability to create something new or think about an original idea using imagination. It helps to find out sustainable solutions to the problem, to discover new ideas, to completely revamp or to design something unique. Our future totally depends upon creative ways to solve the problems that we are not aware of yet! 'Mathematics involves problem solving, logical reasoning, applying rules, putting restrictions and certainly does not include creativity!' The above statement makes me inquisitive...and leads to the question, can we foster creativity in mathematics?  I have been doing the activity of sunrise in my sessions (usually for set induction). The main objective is to check the creativity amongst participants and also it acts as an icebreaking activity. It starts with the prompt to everyone as draw sunrise in one minute ! I set the timer and go around the class to see what everyone is doing. Infact I also ask everyone to do their own, not to peep into what ot...

  Misconceptions in Mathematics Mathematics is the gate and key of all the sciences!  This statement confirms the importance of Mathematics but still there is a fear about Mathematics in the mind of most of the students! Why is this fear so difficult to minimize or fade off? The major barriers in learning mathematics are lack of understanding the concept and importance given to exams rather than understanding the concept. So, when the concepts are not learnt correctly, or students have access to incomplete/ half-truths or ingrained with some pre-established ideas in their mind, or sometimes poor reasoning skills and the faulty teaching practices that does not motivates the students; all these develops misconceptions in Mathematics. Misconceptions can be described as a mistaken idea or view resulting from a misunderstanding of something. For example, the teacher is explaining an image of a tree and student's perception of a tree can be completely differ...

 This is my first blog as The Learning Teacher! Well Begun is Half Done! This principle that I learnt during my Teacher Education has always worked wonderfully for me! I have been always curious about, how to start my session, what exciting activity should I plan for the beginning to make it attractive and interesting for my students and participants? I suppose many teachers have the same question when they start planning for their session. So, I have penned down seven ways this can be done easily. Let us understand the story behind the beginning! The beginning has to be planned effectively to ensure smooth journey of the entire session. The skill that is needed to effectively plan any session is called as SET INDUCTION- that means setting the tone or stage. The participants are inducted with what exactly will be there in the session.  For effective planning of Set Induction, let us consider the following which has helped me. The Purpose:  The question of existence 😃Firs...