Class 11-12

Education is a prime concern of society. Naturally both as individuals and as a society we always think about a better education for all round growth and development of the individual and, ultimately, society. Today the term quality education has gained pace and is a matter of concern and debate among educationists and even common people. In fact education itself is qualitative in nature and outcome. The matter of discussion or concern should be the process, the contents etc.

Learning through play, particularly in a child’s earliest years of life, can improve 

New educational portal Math4U - http://math4u.vsb.cz offers attractive and complex training materials for students and also offers tools for teachers to prepare tests and exams.

Math4U portal is divided into three main sections - Math for Student (Math4S), Math for Teacher (Math4T) and Math for Class (Math4C).

In this edition of ‘Adventures’ we study a few miscellaneous problems, some from the PRMO and some from the AIME (the ‘American Invitational Mathematics Examination’). As usual, we pose the problems first and present the solutions later.

Graphics calculators have been available to students in secondary school in some countries now for more than thirty years, although of course their capabilities have been developed in various ways to support the school curriculum over that time. The most frequent use of these devices seems to be concerned with the representation of functions, including in particular their graphical representation, which was an important component of a previous paper in this magazine (Kissane, 2016).