Understanding Mathematics

Year – 2011
Number of kits–5,000
Number of activities – 30
Target group–10 to 14 year olds
Outreach – All India
Languages – 3
Commissioned by – NCSTC, Government of India

The kit has been designed to make mathematics more hands-on through colourfully designed games, puzzles and activities on arithmetic, algebra and geometry. The kit containsextremely innovative concepts like Parallax, a method of calculating distances through angular geometry of faraway objects. Then there arecut-outs used to explain polygons and Pythagoras theorem. There are different types of number games included in the activity kit like binary numbers and the Fibonacci sequence. It explains contributions of India to mathematics too.