The Fine Art of Losing Friends
Reproducing this lovely piece by Avay Shukla There are two certain ways to lose a friend: one, have an affair with his wife; two, start a discussion on politics. The…
Learn to READ >> READ to Learn
Reading is the heart of education, the knowledge of almost every subject in school flows from reading. One must be able to read the word problems in maths to understand…
Calendar Drift
What is today’s date? If you answer that question, most likely you are giving an answer based on a calendar that goes all the way back to one put in…
Habits That Make Thinkers
What is the difference between students and learners – on the surface, it’s a matter of tone and compliance, but it also has to do with purpose – why are…
101 Things Teachers Can Understand and Learn From
Being a teacher can be tough. Here’s some wisdom to make it just a little bit easier. These are tidbits of acuity and insight about the art of being a…
Messy Learning Develops Critical Thinking
Making a mess isn’t necessarily a bad thing anymore, especially with learning. I recollect a teacher saying Take chances, make mistakes, get messy! But what exactly did she mean by…
Facial Recognition and its Risks
Within just a few decades facial recognition has gone from being some staple of highly advanced security systems in movies to existing all around us and even in the palms…
Family Maths
In their homes and other early education and care settings, children make initial explorations into everyday mathematics, progressively developing and refining knowledge and skills as well as acquiring expectations, motivations,…
Right Wingers in Power
We have a number of right-wing governments around the world, some of these are in the US (till recently), India, the UK, Brazil, Poland, Hungary, the Philippines, and Turkey. These…
Cistercian numerals
The medieval Cistercian numerals, or “ciphers” in nineteenth-century parlance, were developed by the Cistercian monastic order (the Order of Cistercians are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that…