Math Circle workshop
Hingalganj, West Bengal. 2023
About the Experience..
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The Math Circle Model
🧬 I have been playing with the Math Circle model in rural Bengal for sometime. The goal has been to tweak the age-old Russian #mathcircle model to make it locally relevant and adapted with contemporary learning tools. It has been a slow learning process for us. This post contains the present state of the model.…
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Math Circle Workshop at Marigachi High School
We are conducting some Math Circle workshops in rural parts of Bengal since 2016. Here are some photos and videos from the one that we conducted on 25th July, 2023. This post also contains a diary of that workshop. Diary About 30 students participated (from classes 6 to 10). They were split in groups of…
What is a Math Circle
Math Circle is a flipped classroom pedagogical experiment with non-routine problems. It is designed to connect rural and urban students in India through Mathematics. Usually group of 4 students selected from a workshop in a rural school are paired with 4 urban students who have been training for Math Olympiads for some time. A teacher from the rural school is also trained in the process and is remunerated with a stipend.
In the former Soviet Union, students, teachers, and mathematicians created small groups (Math Circles) to facilitate the process of mathematical learning and philosophical discussion with the aim to promote enthusiasm and camaraderie towards the subject similar to a team sport. Prominent mathematicians like Perelman, are products of Math Circles in Russia.