WHAT IS MATH CLUB?
Maths Club is a bunch of people getting together to play with maths. You might play games that use maths, or use maths to create work so fart, or make up puzzles and riddles that use maths as part of the solution.
The Purpose of Math Club
This is to apply Math skills and knowledge. This will be accomplished by using games, activities, and mock competitions. Students will cooperatively work to complete Logic and Math Puzzles.
Math Club will support classroom learning, enrich their skills with higher order thinking, and prepare students for future Math Competitions. Math Club meet every Wednesday.
Among them, mathematics club is also are to create interest and maintaining interest in mathematics using the structures be encouraged to themselves into mathematics club. Certain activities like discussions, lectures, certain mathematical games can be arranged. Totally this is helpful to the students in having an idea of the practical utility of mathematics in addition to creating their interest in mathematics
The objectives of mathematics club can be summarized as under.
- Mathematics club helps in the proper utilization of leisure time.
- It helps in arousing and maintaining students’ interest in mathematics.
- It provides the students with opportunities to develop their explorative, creative and inventive faculties.
- It inculcates the habit of self-study and independent work among the students.
- It offers an ideal avenue for a free exchange of mathematical ideas and for frank and helpful criticism of these ideas.
- It provides an informal and a social atmosphere,which the classroom can hardly provide.
- It offers excellent opportunities for free consideration of matters of special interest to the members without the necessity of following any particular sequence as required in a classroom.
- It helps in developing heuristic and problem solving attitude among the students.
- It provides opportunities for students to translate the theory into practice and to apply their learning in daily life situations.
- It helps the student to imbibe social qualities like co-operation, tolerance, adjustment and open-mindedness, as they work in groups.
- It helps to meet individual needs of the students are every member gets an opportunity to work in his areas of interest.
- The informal knowledge acquired through mathematics club activities supplements classroom learning.
- Mathematics clubs extend learning beyond the limits of the classroom
- Mathematics clubs may meet during school hours, their activities may often extend to out of school hours at home in the laboratory, in the field etc.
- Club activities provide first hand experiences to the learners as they participate in model making, arranging for exhibition, field work, laboratory work and soon