Math Around Me

Nehru World School

Nehru World School (NWS) is based in Ghaziabad, India and committed to creating an environment where teaching and learning are exciting and students embark on a lifelong journey of learning.

Over the years, the school has developed many unique learning initiatives such as ‘I Can’ or ‘Start-Up SuperStars’ and most recently ‘Math Around Me.’ In collaboration with Cambridge University Press, NWS encouraged students from around the world to explore and find Math connections around them. The students were asked to express their thoughts and findings in short videos which they shared on social media platforms.

‘‘We believe that gamification of learning can set new impulses. We were thinking of how to get students to think about mathematics away from classroom teaching. So we came up with the idea for ‘Math Around Me’ where we took into consideration, especially during the pandemic, that students are very active on social media channels. We cannot stop them from using it but how can we leverage it for learning? So our concept encouraged students to discover math around them and make a short video and post it. The students were very creative, they spotted math in a brick wall, in a timetable or in a pizza slice. ‘‘

‘‘Over 500 videos were made and we opened it up for other schools. We started to engage kids in different ways and made them realise that math is so much part of their daily lives. One of the outcomes of the project was that suddenly math was a cool thing to talk about in classrooms.’’ Dr. Arunabh Singh, Director Nehru World School

More about learning at NWS: www.nehruworldschool.com