Maths Workshop

Children of classes I to IV have participated in ‘Maths Workshop’ held on 13-02-12. This preparation was well planned by the primary teachers of classes I to IV. The workshop started with a ‘Warm Up’ session by making hand symbols of addition and subtraction. Children then continued with ‘Popcorn’ activity where whenever the teacher tells an Odd number students need to take a ‘crouch’ position and when it is Even number they need to ‘jump up’, in this way they finished this activity in the School Ground. Later, all of them went for the second round, where they were all divided into 8 groups (i.e square, triangle, cube, rectangle, circle, star, cone & Cylinder), each group was given cut outs of shapes and were made to work in a group and create objects. All the Kids displayed great team spirit and came up with different patterns like a train, a house, wall hangings, people, monster etc. It was great fun and it helped students to learn about different shapes and also how to work in a team. The concept of addition, subtraction and multiplication has been used for the third game by using dice. Children threw the dice to add, subtract or multiply this made them use mental abilities. In the end an interesting activity involving ‘Oakridge Supermarket’ was made and the concept of ‘buying and selling’ and ‘optimum utilization’ of money was demonstrated. The teams were called and given duplicate hundred rupee notes to solve word problems and shopping from the fake Money given. Children thoroughly enjoyed and showed great enthusiasm in all the activities by participating and responded well.