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Development of Enrichment Material in Mathematics at the Higher
Secondary Stage
The Material has been developed in accordance to the following objectives:
� To identify topics for the development of enrichment material in mathematics
at higher secondary stage.
� To develop enrichment material on identified topics.
� To explore the applications of identified topics in different fields of human
endeavour.
A five-day workshop of practising teachers was held to chalk out the strategies
for developing the material. The entire course content in mathematics at higher
secondary stage was classified in seven units, namely: Sets, Relations and
Functions; Algebra; Trigonometry; 2-dimensional geometry; Vector algebra and
3-dimensional geometry; Calculus; Probability; Linear inequality and linear
programming. A format was designed for developing the materials which included,
Introduction, Conceptual understanding, Applications, Misconceptions etc. The
developed material was reviewed and edited in the next workshop of five days by
few more experts and practising teachers. Thus the resulting draft is a collective
effort of experts and teachers. The published material will be of use to teachers,
teacher educators and students, forming the clientele group.
Development of Exemplar Problems in Mathematics for the Upper Primary
Stage— Hindi Version
To meet the need of additional interdisciplinary and application based innovative
problems, based on the syllabus of Class VII and Class VIII mathematics, the
department planned to execute this development project. The project was
completed according to the approach and vision of NCF-2005 and it will
supplement the Classes VII and VIII mathematics textbooks. In academic year
2010-11, the Hindi version of these exemplar books were prepared. In these
problem books, the development team has evolved an innovative approach to
motivate students not only to learn and do mathematics but also to come away
from the experience with a positive attitude. In these creative and stimulating
books, students and teachers will find a variety of mind-expanding questions,
activities, puzzles and will be able to locate mathematics in their house, sports
and food etc. It has been designed to enhance and enlighten, as well as to entertain.
The diversity of the problems and the various approaches to solving them will
improve the students’ problem-solving skills, as well as the general thinking
skills required for subjects outside of mathematics. The flexibility and variety of
problems in these exemplar problem books span the whole spectrum of Class
VII and VIII mathematics, and the direct application based problems to a wide
range of learning styles will make Mathematics for Fun approach— a rewarding
and positive experience for students and teachers alike.
Development of Graded Learning Material (GLM) in Science and
Mathematics at the Upper Primary Stage—Hindi Version
Under the above programme the English version of thirty packages of GLM in
Science and Mathematics at Upper Primary Stage were translated in Hindi. To
review the draft manuscripts of Hindi translated version a workshop was
conducted at NIE Campus, New Delhi during January 2011 in which GLM
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