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Save the Frogs
Geetha Iyer Frogs have been around for 300 million years and have survived some very harsh conditions on earth. Yet in their greatest test of survival, they appear to be failing, unable to defend...
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Multi-threaded math
Ragini Ramalingam During the last couple of years at high school, I didn’t have any idea about what I wanted to study in college. I added and subtracted my interests and hobbies, my favourite subjects...
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Before the bell rings
“If you want a happy ending it depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” How do you end your class? Sounds like a simple question….but difficult to answer because those last minutes matter!...
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A slide, a saviour, a solution
Geetha Durairajan The readers of this column know that I work at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad and many readers, I suspect, have also worked out that I live on campus. Just...
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Short on time
Manaswini Sridhar There are a number of teachers in my school who truly believe that what the school should not be doing at the primary level is focusing solely on the academic curriculum, as is being...
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Round and round about
Sheel Wheels… thinking of them brings up an image of Charlie Chaplin from “Modern Times” tinkering with the giant machine that has wheels, wheels and more wheels. Wheels have a very long history, and...
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No mantra for motivation
Aditi Mathur and Ratnesh Mathur “I like logic and reasoning, but I prefer a gun.” (From the movie – The Godfather) So much for external motivation! And that is precisely how it works. And as most...
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Fun with patterns and ideas
Yasmin Jayathirtha I was asked recently how to make chemistry fun in the primary classes. This poses quite a dilemma for me. I don’t understand how chemistry cannot be fun, particularly in the younger...
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Negative thinking for positive results
Sinny Mole The weekly lesson plan review meeting of Math teachers was in progress. According to the plan the chapter on negative numbers was scheduled for the forthcoming week. We usually organize a...
View ArticleDangerous times, dangerous spaces
December brings difficult memories for us, when we recall the tragedies of Bhopal, the Delhi rape, and now the Taliban attack on the Army school in Peshawar. There’s been an outpouring of shock and...
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