Making friends with X and Y
Workshop
1.5 hrs
May 09, 2015 10:30 am Saturday

A fun session on algebra for school students

Algebra was made to simplify mathematics. It is the art of establishing patterns and making it independent of numbers. That is where our friends x,y and zs come in.

However, in the fear of this representation, children often fail to understand the beauty of the subject. They fail to understand that x, y or z can be replaced by any and every number to hold good, hence they have no significance.

This session has been designed to drive that fear away. We use physical objects to represent algebraic equations and solve them. This helps children see the insignificance of xs and ys and the ease with which they can be replaced with anything - physical objects in this case.

It will help children to take a new perspective of familiarity with Algebra.

Organizer
Swathi Pasumarti and Ananth Teja Mahankali
We are two individuals who share the same passion towards contributing to the educational system in India. By education, we are both engineers from different IITs, and in personal life, we are a married couple. One of us works as a consultant in a leading multinational, and the other is leading a tech SME in Hyderabad. This is a hobby idea of ours, and we intend to conduct educational enrichment sessions for school children in our free time. We have carefully designed a few session ideas, and this one is a mathematics session for children to start enjoying algebra.