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First few problems
Usually Math Circle workshops begin with problems and end in problems.
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Math Circle Workshop at Swapnopuron Shiksha Niketan
Sundarbans, West Bengal, India We are conducting some Math Circle workshops in rural parts of Bengal since 2016.
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Math Circle Champions 2023
In 2023, the following 7 students from Swapnapuran School (Sundarbans, West Bengal) have completed the Math Circle Activity. Swapnapuran is a school in the remote village of Hingalganj, near Sundarbans. Throughout the year the students collaborated with Cheenta students every week. They solved beautiful non-routine problems and learnt from each other. About 20 leaders from…
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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…
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Problem Set on Design
Problem 1 Four intersecting paths pass through the yard (see plan). Plant four apple trees so that there are equal number of apple trees on either side of each path. Problem 2 Anna uses 32 small grey squares to frame a 7 cm by 7 cm big picture. How many small grey squares does she…
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