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YOGA – A Science of Body, mind and soul

Team NumberNagar® 24 December 2017 No Comments

In recent times, we often find students leading stressful lives. I think that one of the most stressful times in a person’s life is when they are in school. Nowadays students get stressed due to many reasons. A small amount of work is fine for them, but high expectations lead…

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Living in a different time zone

Sriraghavan S M 10 December 2017 No Comments

It was a lazy Sunday morning. I woke up without the alarm screaming in my ears. The new habit of checking my mobile phone for time made me see the clock on the screen that showed 8:00 am. I had a video shoot at 10:00 am at office that day,…

Education Enjoyment Learning Maths

Fish can’t fly and birds can’t swim

Team NumberNagar® 24 November 2017 No Comments

As kids we have always had our very own mathematical tricks, these tricks were tucked away in our rough notes and last pages of our textbooks.To name a few – Magic square, tables of number 9 and the list just goes on. As an example, let me show you a…

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Amusement in Learning

Dr. Soumya Sreehari 11 November 2017 No Comments

“Given a round tea-cake of some 5 inches across, and two persons of moderate appetite to eat it, in what way should it be cut so as to leave a minimum of exposed surface to become dry?” Coming across this problem just prior to Christmas in 1906, eminent statistician and…

Activities Learning Psychology Skills

Warm up for your little one’s fingers

Team NumberNagar® 29 October 2017 No Comments

Today we often find children with weak hands either due to lower muscle tone or birth defects or they get their fingers engaged by tapping and typing on the electronic gadgets and keyboards. The medical world confirms that their fingers get damaged and become weak by playing continuously on the…

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4 Things that can Transform our Schools

Sriraghavan S M 15 October 2017 No Comments

The shloka “Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu, Guru Devo Maheshwaraha, Guru shakshaath parabrahma thasmai shree gurave namaha” summarises the position of the learned teacher in the life of a disciple. We have moved far from the system of a single Guru and his Gurukula to myriad schools with multiple teachers teaching…

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From Darkness to Light…

Team NumberNagar® 30 September 2017 No Comments

Subham Karoti Kalyanam, Arogyam Dhana Sampadah, Shatru Buddhi Vinashaya Deepa Jyotir Namostute. ‘ I salute the one who is the lamplight that brings auspiciousness; prosperity, good health, abundance of wealth, and the destruction of the intellect’s enemy– Kama(lust), krodha(anger), lobha(greed), moha(attachment), mada(pride) and matsarya(jealousy)’. As Navaratri, Diwali, Karthikai deepam(festival of lights)…

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There’s more to life than few meagre numbers

Dr. Soumya Sreehari 18 June 2017 No Comments

“At 15 months old, my daughter has 6 teeth, your daughter? 4? Oh!” “Both our children are 1.5 years old, your daughter already recognises animals from pictures, my daughter can’t do that at all” ”My son got 73% in his previous year final exams, so this year I am sending…

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The WHAT and HOW of Teaching

Sriraghavan S M 4 June 2017 No Comments

Schools – the seats of knowledge and the sites of moulding future generations, need to address constantly, this question of what and how of teaching. Regarding the question of ‘what to teach’, there is a growing concern on the quantum of content that students are expected to consume in the…

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Leaving Reason Behind for the Sake of Sensationalism

Dr. Soumya Sreehari 26 February 2017 No Comments

Generating Curiosity: “Forget what you learned in high school, this new carbon molecule has 6 bonds” – proclaimed the title of an article that popped up on my Facebook news feed. This certainly piqued my interest, although I was skeptical about their claim of forgetting what we learned in high…