VKV Itanagar celebrated GANIT Week

Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalaya, Itanagar

GANIT WEEK

 VKV Itanagar celebrated GANIT Week from 17/12/2014 to 22/12/2014. The details of the celebration are as follow-

On 17^th Dec’2014,      Essay Writing competition. 

VI to VIII- Topic “Uses of Mathematics in day to day life”

IX to XII- ‘Contribution of Indian Mathematicians’

Participation: All 441 students of class VI to XII.

On 18^th Dec’2014, Quiz competition was organized by class X students under the guideness of mathematics teachers. The objective behind this was to make the student efficient in organizing competition as well as to have revision of the concept they have in earlier classes. The competition was housewise and VI to VIII students participated. There were 4 groups of 4 students each. there were five rounds in the Quiz.

1^st round          Numerical Ability

2^nd round         Logical round

3^rd round          Riddles round

4^th round          Aakar Prakar/ visual round

5^th round          Rapid fire round

On 19^th Dec’2014 “Experience Sharing on Innovation by Teachers and students was done.

8 boys and 5 girls of Class X shared their innovative way of using Vedic mathematics (Nine theory, Nikilam, etc.) to calculate quickly and correctly. This was shared to bring awareness of our richness of mathematics.

All mathematics teachers shared one or two innovative ways of solving mathematical problems.

E.g.

1.      Pictorial way of solving a world problems with in fraction of minute

2.      How to define and understand topic like “function” with comparing blood relations like Daughter – Mother Relation which solidify all the condition of functions.

3.      Akadhikana Sutra for finding decimal expansion of 1/19, 1/29, 1/39_ _ _ _ _ etc. within a fraction of seconds.

On 20^th Dec’2014 A film of half an hour named “Hard Problems The Road to the World's Toughest Math Contest ”- the journeys  of 10 students of International Olympic prize owner were shown to IX, X and XI (Sc). Then they were asked to write how they felt about the film. Most of them were inspired by the film to have mathematics in their higher studies.

On 22^nd Dec’2014, Origami Competition for primary classes was done. Items like frog, boat, die, bag, lotus, pistol etc. were made by the students and demonstrated. There were two rounds. In the 1^st round all students of class I to V participated and in 2^nd round five best participants from each class participated in three groups.

1^st group          Class I and II

2^nd group         Class III and IV

3^rd group          Class V

Prizes were distributed in the culmination function.