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9th December-Welcome Dinner  

21 participants from all over India reached Ahmedabad on 9th December and took part in the 3 day event.  A Welcome Dinner was hosted by the Mathcovery Team for all the participants and their guardians.   

10th December-A time for Friends 

The 2nd day of Mathcovery began with all the participants assembling their 3D models. In the evening all of them along with their guardians were taken for an outing to Kankaria lake where everybody got the chance to see the whole of Ahmedabad from 360 feet in the sky! The children and adults alike were blown over by the ride in the Helium Balloon which is the first of its kind in India!  

The Grand Finale 

Mathcovery Final Round was held at Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA) on 11th December,2010.   

The event was hosted by Mathcovery creator Anuron Mitra and Jenny David. More than 1000 guests, schools and students visited the Exhibition.

The exhibition provided great opportunity to the students to interact with their peers and to share their findings with the Mathematics Experts from across the country, who formed the panel of judges for the exhibition. The panel of judges comprised of Prof. Amber Habib (Professor at Mathematical Sciences Foundation – Delhi), Ms. Meera Raghavan (Maths Expert – Bangalore), Mr. K. Subramaniam (Sr. Faculty at Homi Bhabha Centre for Science education), and Ms. Manjri Patil (Math Expert). 

The Judges as well as the Mathcovery Creators were presented with a plaque and a certificate.  

The evaluation took 4 hours and two Mathcovery Champions emerged on this day-Mohammed Safiulla from The Titan School, Hosur in the Senior category and Subhiksha S from Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School, Chennai in the Junior category. The lucky winners received an Apple Macbook each! 
 

Mathcovery  Winners 2010 

 



Mindspark Math Clock is designed especially for Mindspark and has been put in all the Mindspark Labs across the country.

All the numerals on the clock have been replaced by their equivalent notation. Our purpose is to stimulate the students’ brain every time they look at it.

Mindspark has introduced buddies for students. These buddies will now join them while the explore the world of Mindspark.

Check out what Geo, Pyro and Addy have to share with you! Have fun doing Mindspark!

Sreerjit Chennubhatla | Class: 5B | School: Sri Kumaran Children^s Home – CBSE wrote, ”

Hello sparkie,I really enjoy mindspark ,but if I could get a different topic I would be very happy,And the new look of Mindspark is very nice ,your friend Sreerjit”

A 3-member team presented a poster on Mindspark at EDM2010 - an International conference on Educational Data Mining held at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA.

The conference focused on how to use data from Intelligent Tutoring Systems to improve learning. The poster discussed how Mindspark, a school-based Intelligent Tutoring System, uses students’ data to help teachers improve their content-knowledge. It elaborated on the main features of Mindspark, namely, identifying misconceptions and common wrong answers, behavior of misconceptions across classes and different learning paths according to students’ error-patterns.

Mindspark changed the way it looks this year. Students have started writing to us already..

Samir Devanani from Riverside School shares, ” I THINK THAT THIS ENTIRLY NEW SYSTEM AND LOOK OF MINDSPARK IS GOOD, ITS MORE ENJOYABLE AND IS CHILD FRIENDLY. THROUGH THIS YOU COULD BE SURE FOR MORE CHILDREN TO BE REGULAR WITH MINDSPARK, I HOPE THIS CONTINUES AND BECOMES A SUCCESS.”