From the Central Board of Secondary Education is this resource on math lab activities for standards 3 to 8. It is available at the website of the Directorate of Education, Government of the NCT of Delhi.
The resource is a 25 page document listing activities that help in strengthening math concepts.
Showing posts with label textbooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label textbooks. Show all posts
Friday, October 10, 2008
More Textbooks for Afterschool
Here is the link to textbooks for standard 10 from the state of Karnataka, India.
More Math Afterschool!
Following up on my earlier posts on textbooks - here is the link to textbooks from Tamil Nadu.
English versions of math textbooks are available from standard 6 upwards.
Considering the reputation that Tamil Nadu has in mathematics - you would not want to miss these resources!
If textbooks of all states were accessible on the internet for math drills at home and afterschool - would worksheets be redundant?
English versions of math textbooks are available from standard 6 upwards.
Considering the reputation that Tamil Nadu has in mathematics - you would not want to miss these resources!
If textbooks of all states were accessible on the internet for math drills at home and afterschool - would worksheets be redundant?
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Textbooks from the Heart of India! - for Afterschool
I was in the 5th standard, I think, when I first saw a 'different' textbook - my cousins had come to India for the holidays and had brought their textbooks along. I drooled over the fine paper, the colour photographs and the friendly style.
Reading a different textbook can be a useful experience. Children have a tendency to stick to 'the right way' - which they believe is the way of their textbook. It is necessary to have them consider that there may be many right ways... and another textbook can help here.
Here is the link to textbooks from the heat of India - the state of Madhya Pradesh. While not all the links work, don't give up! I tried the links to the math textbooks - the ones for the 2nd, 3rd, 8th and 9th standards worked.
Reading a different textbook can be a useful experience. Children have a tendency to stick to 'the right way' - which they believe is the way of their textbook. It is necessary to have them consider that there may be many right ways... and another textbook can help here.
Here is the link to textbooks from the heat of India - the state of Madhya Pradesh. While not all the links work, don't give up! I tried the links to the math textbooks - the ones for the 2nd, 3rd, 8th and 9th standards worked.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Turn to Textbooks Afterschool!!
Textbooks afterschool = Textbooks during school?
Not really. Children in India see just one prescribed textbook for each subject at each level. As schools often lack active libraries, and as learning usually does not go beyond memorizing the contents of the textbook - they do not refer to any other books. Most parents too believe that the textbook is the only thing the child must learn from.
How does an afterschool programme encourage reading outside the prescribed textbook in these circumstances? Luckily, we have several textbook publishers. There is of course the NCERT which designs the curriculum and has its own textbooks for the national CBSE syllabus. Then there are the various state boards printing their own textbooks for the schools following the state syllabus. Then there are any number of private textbook publishers.
It is quite an experience for the child to read the same lesson in another textbook - the way a concept is explained, the illustrations, and the review questions are all different. Checking another textbook to see what is similar or dissimilar as compared to the familiar one at school is a 'head fake' that reinforces and enriches learning.
So stock a lot of textbooks in your afterschool library!
Not really. Children in India see just one prescribed textbook for each subject at each level. As schools often lack active libraries, and as learning usually does not go beyond memorizing the contents of the textbook - they do not refer to any other books. Most parents too believe that the textbook is the only thing the child must learn from.
How does an afterschool programme encourage reading outside the prescribed textbook in these circumstances? Luckily, we have several textbook publishers. There is of course the NCERT which designs the curriculum and has its own textbooks for the national CBSE syllabus. Then there are the various state boards printing their own textbooks for the schools following the state syllabus. Then there are any number of private textbook publishers.
It is quite an experience for the child to read the same lesson in another textbook - the way a concept is explained, the illustrations, and the review questions are all different. Checking another textbook to see what is similar or dissimilar as compared to the familiar one at school is a 'head fake' that reinforces and enriches learning.
So stock a lot of textbooks in your afterschool library!
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