The new set of books, designed by the NCERT's primary textbook committee, creates a culturally responsive mathematics curriculum, according to the chair of the committee Anita Rampal -- "(We) have looked at math through the prism of everyday life. Instead of teaching through abstractions, the books tell real-life stories of people so that the youngsters can identify with the characters."
Thus living examples of fish, their shapes and sizes, as well as the capacity of fishing boats off Chennai's coast to teach the principles of maths. Similarly, to make the connection of a map to the aerial photo of a place, they used a photograph of India Gate and Rashtrapati Bhavan by the celebrated photographer Raghu Rai who was only too willing to give them permission to print it.
One of those feel good stories when there is so much bemoaning about the state of our education system...
9 comments:
The new NCERT books are a step in the right direction.
Coming to N.Ram, what does he have to gain by praising China so much? What is the motivation behind such bias?
That's easy - he just parrots the party line. See Karat's statement today - apparently all the recent comments and news items regarding China and its activities vis-a-vis India is just a right wing conspiracy to spoil India-China relations. The RSS is a unprepossessing organisation but you can hardly blame it for everything!
I see. So he's just showing support his favourite party, not necessarily the party in power.
I read the original article, too. Yes it is heartening, indeed. Also the fact that there are inputs from divers people, and that the Internet is being put to good use.
Are the books available off the shelf in Madras? How can we get our hands on some sample copies?
I can check if these are available somewhere and let you know.
BTW just out of curiosity: isn't 'divers' the Old Dickensian version of the modern 'diverse'. Or is it the other way around?
According to my understanding (and dictionary), divers is several or sundry; whereas diverse is of various kinds or multiform.
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