IIT Gandhinagar, CBSE collaborates to launch 30-30 STEM programme to promote critical thinking

IIT Gandhinagar along with CBSE and IISER an online education programme on basic conceptual understanding and critical thinking of Mathematics and Science.

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar in partnership with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune (IISER Pune), has launched ‘30-30 STEM’. The Centre for Creative Learning (CCL) at IIT Gandhinagar along with CBSE and IISER Pune will provide an online education programme on basic conceptual understanding and critical thinking of Mathematics and Science. ‘30-30 STEM’ will be a set of 30 online live sessions, that will be conducted every Sunday for 30 weeks with unique content to bring out the joy and inherent beauty in the curriculum that is all around us.

The programme aims to provide an online platform to teachers as well as students and their parents, to make STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) learning more engaging by breaking subject boundaries to create a sense of wonder from everyday life. The first one-hour live session was held on August 16, 2020, from 4 to 5 pm, on the theme of ‘Adventures of A4 Paper’ that creatively explained topics like the distance between Earth and Moon, ratio and proportion, similar triangles, length and volume, octagon, and so on, by using a simple A4 size paper sheet.

Teachers, students and many other participants from across the country enthusiastically participated in this session that received about 1,20,000 live views and more than 1,50,000 views in a single day.

Sharing the vision behind this initiative, Professor Manish Jain, Associate Teaching Professor, IITGN and Main Facilitator of ’30-30 STEM’ programme said, “We are very excited about this unique programme, where the goal is to unlock the beauty, magic, mystery of Mathematics and Science. These subjects are often considered hard and boring; this is an initiative to work with teachers and children to make the curriculum exciting by exploring the Maths/Science around us. We would also try to showcase how to make online education engaging and inspiring."

The next 29 weekly sessions will bring more interesting themes, topics, and puzzles such as discovering Math inside the calendar; combinatorics with playing cards; knowing our gut; how animals interact (to discover the science behind it); 3D visualisation with kheera (cucumber); ICT tool GeoGebra to understand the concepts of geometry, algebra, statistics and calculus; geometry with dough and broom-sticks, among others.

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