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8 ways in which the reading habit has enriched my life

Dr. Soumya Sreehari 1 February 2020 4 Comments

My long-standing love story with reading: Ever since my childhood, I have been besotted with reading. It is the only consistent habit that has stayed with me over the last four decades of my life. “Why are you always reading story books? Read your schoolbooks!” This was my mother’s common…

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NumberNagar® Dialogue Series – On Getting Command in Mathematics

Introduction When people ask me what’s the value of learning Mathematics if you are not going to apply in your job, I say Mathematics is all around you. If you understand Mathematics you can appreciate how nature works, how the celestial bodies work, and how everything we have created so…

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NumberNagar® Dialogue Series – On Bringing Fluency in Spoken English in Children

Nishant Krishna 17 January 2020 No Comments Activity Based Adaptive Learning Creativity Critical Thinking English

Introduction English is as good as my native language and I’m fluent in it. However, I was not always like this. My “mother-tongue” is Hindi. So, when I started getting into debates, elocution, and speeches during my school days, I had to translate the sentences from Hindi to English, many…

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NumberNagar Dialogue Series – On Creativity in Children

Nishant Krishna 10 January 2020 2 Comments Activity Based Creativity Parenting Productivity

Introduction Creativity is a frequently discussed topic. We see a lot of creative people around us, musicians, writers, artists, poets, designers, photographers, journalists, and many such people, we generally associate creativity with. What if, the purview of creativity is much wider than these personas? What if creativity plays a major…

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NumberNagar Dialogue Series – On Reducing Stress and Increasing Energy Level in Children

Nishant Krishna 3 January 2020 2 Comments Activity Based Parenting Productivity Stress Reduction

Introduction As parents / teachers / facilitators, we are observing that the stress level in children is on the rise. At the same, time, we also observe that the energy level in children is going down. In the first part of the NumberNagar Dialogue Series, I talk to Sushma, who…

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Glimpse of the Eclipse – a Meaningful Learning Experience – Part 2

Sriraghavan S M 27 December 2019 1 Comment

Preparation for the much-awaited event: We were pretty excited about the eclipse viewing event plans. As expected, the morning of 26 Dec 2019 was misty and cloudy. The eagerness to witness the annular solar eclipse was so high that I was willing to take a chance. The idea was to…

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Glimpse of the Eclipse – a Meaningful Learning Experience – Part 1

Sriraghavan S M 24 December 2019 6 Comments

Annular Solar Eclipse: On 26 December 2019, the people of Bengaluru are in for a celestial treat – the annular solar eclipse. This is the eclipse of the sun. It happens when the moon while travelling around the earth, gets aligned between the sun and the earth. Shadow of the…

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Celebrating NumberNagar® – The story

Sriraghavan S M 20 December 2019 8 Comments

Every end is a new beginning. Personal background: In the beginning of the new century, humankind was also contemplating the end of the world. Firstly, the Y2K bug threatened the end of the IT world. Then, there was a widespread belief that “the world would end on 22 Dec 2012”.…

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My experiments with Mathematics

Sriraghavan S M 13 December 2019 1 Comment

Maths from my childhood: The moment we hear the word Maths, we think of calculations and formulae. For some, Maths is easy and for others, it is a hard nut to crack. For me, Maths has been a fascination. To me, Maths means – the ability to understand the universe…

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The next 90 days – 3 areas of focus for better exam preparation

Sriraghavan S M 6 December 2019 No Comments

Introduction: This is the season of exam preparations in terms of syllabus completion, planning for the pre–boards and then boards. Here are some tips to work with during this season. The most important aspect of exam preparation is confidence. This comes from preparedness which comes from clarity of concepts and…