Updated on: Tuesday, March 27, 2012
NIIT installed the state-of-the-art ‘NGuru Math Lab, at Chennai Corporation High School, Mylapore in Chennai,launching a breakthrough initiative that aims at making the vital subject of mathematics simpler, easier and fun to learn for school students.
Chennai Corporation Mayor, Thiru Saidai Duraisamy inaugurated the revolutionary concept.
‘NIIT NGuru Math Lab is a novel concept that enables school students to learn and explore mathematical concepts and verify mathematical facts and theorems using tools such as the Geometers Sketchpad. Structured on NCERT guidelines, this is a dynamic construction and exploration tool that spans the mathematical curriculum from Standard 1 to 12, being made available to Indian schools by NIIT.
NIIT MindChampion Viswanathan Anand speaking on the revolutionary teaching learning solutions from NIIT NGuru, said, “With a vision to create ‘schools of tomorrow, NIIT has designed complete education and technology solutions to engage students, teachers and parents alike in the whole process of learning. This pioneering initiative by NIIT will help the young generation script many success stories in their life ahead. Math Lab has been specially designed to add a fun quotient to the subject that is usually feared by students.”
In addition to providing greater scope for individual participation in the process of learning and becoming autonomous learners, the Math Lab also enables the teacher to demonstrate, explain and reinforce abstract mathematical ideas by using concrete objects, models, charts, graphs, pictures, posters, etc.