In our workshop, children:
Our workshops ignite curiosity and fuel creativity and intuitive thinking that is meant to help them for the life, including competitive exams and school!
What we don’t do
We don’t teach what is taught in school. We believe that school teachers are doing a wonderful job of covering the syllabus.
Our workshops take things beyond school and look at problems without constraints of syllabus or method. From knowns to unknowns, from simple to complex, from specific to generalized, we help children grow their abilities of problem solving.
Key Highlights of Workshop
Workshop Topics
Following are some of the past and present topics of workshops & sessions. Please click on Event Calendar page to know about the current and the upcoming workshops.
Fun with Fractions
Fractions is the first step when Maths starts challenging students. In this course, we make fractions fun by making them visual, by showing their applications and by helping children learn some interesting properties and facts. We introduce interesting topics like Egyptian fractions and Fractional Magic Squares to help children tackle interesting problems. For each our course, the contents get customized based on the group of students.
Beautiful Geometry
Based on the cohort, we work children to discover geometric shapes and patterns in our day-to-day world. We work with children on real-life practical applications of geometry in different areas. In this courses, children learn to ‘break the barriers’ of what is given as we nudge them to ‘imagine.’
Puzzles & Problem Solving in Numbers
We work with students to discover patterns in numbers and understand how they behave. We work on interesting puzzles and activities like magic squares, cryptarithms and basics of cryptography, Pascal’s triangle, etc. Some of the activities in this workshop are surprisingly open-ended and help children to get rid of any number-phobia.
The Art of Counting (Combinatorics)
In this course, meant for higher secondary students, we deal with the art of counting or combinatorics through a completely intuitive and discovery led ways. We look at most efficient ways of counting (actually without counting them). We lead students to discover the patterns and formulae on their own. We deal with some contest level problems and higher concepts in this workshop.
Creating & Breaking Secret Codes (Cryptography 101)
This is an introductory course on Cryptography. Taking from Cryptarithms and history, this highly engaging and hands-on course makes students create and break their own codes. We discuss with some interesting events in the history and challenges in cryptography and the modern science.
How to do Mental Math
While our focus is not to become human calculators or compete with calculators, we develop the agility of mind to calculate without calculators. We help children develop their own strategies to do mental maths. We also introduce approximations and using them in our daily lives. We do introduce some tips and tricks, but that is not the highlight.
The Bridges of Konnisberg – Introduction to Graph Theory
Through the classic Bridges of Konnisberg problem, we dive into basics of Graph theory and its applications.
Never Loose a Game – Mathematical Games
We discuss mathematical games and their approaches. This highly engaging and interesting course starts with a simple tic-tac-toe game and dwells into different games where students develop their strategies. We slowly take them into game-theory. In this course, students think at multiple levels and multiple parameters systematically to come up with strategies.
Patterns & Symbols in Nature & Cosmic World
This course deals with aspect that Mathematics is the language of universe and is found in all the aspects. We work with mysterious numbers like phi, shapes and patterns that are found in nature and cosmic world. We encourage children to discover things on their own.
Music, Mathematics & Beethoven
Music is as abstract as mathematics. We work with students to look at the relation between wonderful or likeable music and the underlying mathematics. We discuss some of the Beethoven’s classic and debate whether Beethoven was a musician or a mathematician. We look at other examples and ponder whether it was mathematical background that made it beautiful.
The Curious Case – Mathematical Approach to solve mysteries
Mysteries – whether they are astronomical or real-world can be effectively solved using mathematical thinking and approach. We look at interesting tools and techniques which Secret Service agencies have been using to solve some of mysteries.
Puzzles to Puzzle You – Common & Uncommon Puzzles
This is a fun workshop with a collection of some of the classic puzzles. We not only solve the puzzle but look at the underlying concepts. We develop ‘generalized’ solutions to some of the puzzles. In this super-exciting workshops, we help students develop problem-solving, critical thinking and algorithmic thinking.
Origami and the art of Structures
Origami or paper-folding is a traditional Japenese Art & Craft. However, one is amazed to find numerous applications and contribution of origami in the modern-day technology. In this course, we dive into underlying mathematical concepts in Origami and extend them. Not only students are fascinated by what paper-folding can create, they also discover how to use it.
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We had so much fun. Awesome puzzles and so so well organised. Love your passion and energy during facilitation. We tried to solve such puzzles after a long long time - Thanks The child was energised and enthusiastic about the session. The teacher was explaining all the problems and tricks very nicely.
There are way too many things that we liked about the workshop- how you started and set expectations with the kids (like it's fine to be slow, mistakes are good etc), how you encouraged them to think of the method/logic and not really focus on getting the answers right, and all the interesting concepts that you taught them. Every concept was new to Advait and so many were new to us too. Many of our lunch and dinner conversations were about what we learned today and trying to solve the problems as a family! 🙂 The choice of problems was exemplary. We realise that it is not easy to find and craft such problems that really make you think hard. The problems are also well designed to show how fascinating a subject math really is.