Bhavya Chowdhury We started at 0710 hrs from Arvind ji’s place – and reached Wai at 0910 hrs. Nagesh ji had planned an action packed day. We started by having a dekko at the new math architecture which adorns the entrance to the school. On one side are different types of regular solids – starting from a … Read more
Grade 1/2 We started with a session for grade 1 and 2. Most of the session was in Marathi, and Nidhi observed later that this helped student participation. Apoorva had got along his magic sack. Like Santa Claus, the goodies started coming out. A packing thread, a sewing thread, a jute one and finally craft … Read more
We had an interesting visitor – Brig. HSN Sastry. He retired as Director of DIAT. He has also been a Professor at Pune University. He interacted with senior classes. Classes did not ask any questions. He came in at 1240 – so they were in a mood to leave. Got the teachers to stay back … Read more
Density Even the senior kids will take them some time to understand the concept of density. We used wood and a coin to start with to make them realise that objects can sink and float. I asked students why? They said that it was because one was heavier. Next time, need to choose two objects … Read more
I decided to engage students with some math. The simple question that I give to students was: the answer is given, find the question. Eg. 19 =? +? Questions were different for every student. Pranav was quite good in this. The rest of the students struggled. Will do activities below at some later time. · … Read more
Did a test for nursery students. Here are the questions that were part of the test along with the comments. 1. Draw something for me. Most of the children drew a ball, an apple or a balloon. For nursery children, these are things which are simple to draw. The thought that comes to mind, is … Read more
Jayant Gadgil’s dad was in the government service. His basic education happened in a village where classrooms had short walls – and you could listen to whatever lecture seemed to interest you, unless the teacher got wise – and called you out to get you back mentally into his classroom. Jayant was the quintessential all … Read more
Chakravarti, Amitav and Manoj Thomas (2015), Why Consumer (Don’t) Buy: The GO and STOP Signals, Palgrave Macmillan Most businesses view their consumers as homo economicus. The authors’ insight is that they are not. They feel that decisions happen because of some kind of Go/No Go filter that we all have. The stimuli of product attributes … Read more
AG: Shared a ride to Mumbai on Friday. Brainwashed Niket, my host from bla bla car, to totally avoid honking. Tips to do that. Whenever you feel like honking, use the brake. Another, maintain distance between you and the vehicle in front. This practice will result in reduced blood pressure, fewer accidents, and a … Read more
Chetan Singh Solanki grew up in a small village in MP. His dad was a farmer and Chetan’s education till grade 4 was in a single room village school. He shifted from there to Indore for his secondary school education. After finishing his engineering, he went on to do his M.Tech from IIT Bombay. He … Read more
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