Saturday, 13 May 2017

"The Magical Adventures" - Module for Learning after School



Learning after school is as much as important as learning within school. It should happen as unconsciously as possible because of the developed hatred for homework among students. In current education scenario much emphasis is given upon the homework. But the traditional way of homework is not very much appreciated by the learners. The learning module is designed for homework purpose in which NCERT questions are portrayed with some modifications and inculcating them in the story of the module. This module is for revision, recapitulation, concepts clarity, strengthen learning and visualizing math in real world.

The module contains Chapter 1 ‘Integers’ & Chapter 2 ‘Fractions and Decimals’ (exercises 1.4 & 2.1 in particular), NCERT Mathematics book grade 7th. Theme line of the story is about a Magician and his disciples looking for his magical tools. They come across various obstacles in the journey, and each obstacle is based on the NCERT book problems. Students have to help magician by solving the problems for them. Some of the features of the module are creativity, curiosity to learn, imagination, and problem solving attitude.

This module is the intervention tool for the research dissertation "Tranforming students' engagement in Learning after School" by Sourabh Garg student of M.Sc. Mathematics Education, Meta University, A joint degree concept by Jamia Millia Islamia and Delhi University.

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