Swati Sircar is Assistant Professor at the School of Continuing Education and University Resource Centre of Azim Premji University. Math is the second love of her life (the first being drawing). She is a B.Stat-M.Stat from Indian Statistical Institute and an MS in mathematics from University of Washington, Seattle. She has been doing mathematics with children and teachers for more than a decade and is deeply interested in anything hands on – origami in particular.
Swati Sircar
swati.sircar@apu.edu.in
From the Author
Worksheets
Preparatory (Class 3-5)
Thinking out of the Box – A Worksheet
Monika was teaching ‘Nets of Cuboids’ with Class 5. During the reflection and discussion after the sessions, the mathematics teacher pointed out two misconceptions that arose during her sessions. The cuboid that she chose included two square faces. Some of the students formed the misconception that the net of a cuboid must have at least one pair of square faces. The worksheet given below is intended to address this misconception.
Worksheets
Preparatory (Class 3-5)
Middle (Class 6-8)
Fun with Dot Sheets
The ‘WorkShhet’ series is back, with perimeter and area. Pages 1 and 2 are a worksheet for students, while pages 3 and 4 give guidelines for the facilitator. This time we explore shapes with given perimeter or given area using the dots or the grid.
Worksheets
Preparatory (Class 3-5)
Cross-Number Puzzle
This cross-number puzzle is a follow up to the article on Fact Families in the same issue. An addition fact family is essentially a set of three natural numbers, such that the sum of two of these numbers is the third.