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Teaching maths the right way

Prof. S. Parthasarathy

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Maths teaching and learning can be fun, if you do it the right way. Click anywhere on the picture below, to get a bio-sketch of Prof. Partha. Maths can be enjoyable, if it is taught the right way. Here are some thoughts on this subject from an experienced teacher and student of mathematics. This page will also lead you to a large number of resources on the ww-web, to help you in your efforts to learn/teach mathematics. Back to Prof. Partha's gurukul Who is Prof. Partha ? Read Prof. Partha's blog (weblog) for news about him. Visit Algologic Research and Soltuions, where all these ideas are born. Join these training programs by Prof. Partha Contact Prof. Partha today

Click anywhere on the picture of Prof. Partha, to get his bio-sketch With Prof. Partha, the teaching does not end in the classroom.

Well begun is half done : If you are looking for a quick intro to a complex technical subject, start with wikipedia : the excellent on-line encyclopedia. Mathworld -- from Wolfram Research is your best source for a quick look at almost all mathematical terms and definitions you would ever encounter in your life.This is an amazingly rich resource for learning about maths. Try it out today. Bookmark this page now ! Add HTML links to this page ! Tell all your friends and colleagues. The URL of this page is : http://algolog.hostingzero.com/maths/mathtut1.htm Non-traditional teaching initiatives of Prof. Partha Training programs by Prof. Partha Partha's gurukul (an e-learning initiative from Prof. Partha) A teacher's blog Look here for articles on topics which Prof. Partha teaches regularly. Easy, informal, interactive, collaborative learning. Dig here, if you are looking for ideas for your final-year project work. The Professor invites you to his wiki Educational CDROMs by Prof. Partha Invited lectures / guest lectures Please contact Prof. Partha for details.

This part of Prof. Partha's website is inspired from similar learning initiatives like : MIT's Open Coursware (MIT-OCW) Utah State University's Open Learning Support OSLO Project Opencontent.org initiative. eKALAVYA Project of Indian Institute of Techology, Mumbai, India. NPTEL program of the Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Instt. of Science , India. Eight of the best technology institutions of India, have joined hands and have made access to their course material, free, for all. This is a huge resource. Prof. Parthasarathy taught discrete maths to undergrad students of computer science, in engineering colleges affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad, in India. He has always been interested in the mechanisms involved in the teaching of mathematics, and has always been looking for ways to make this a more enjoyable experience both for the teacher and the taught.

Prof. Partha's papers on this subject

1. Why is it so difficult to teach (mathematics) ?
    
2. The futility of teaching mathematics to engineering students in India (conference paper --- pdf file)
    
3. COMING SOON -- Watch this space
   
   Better light a candle than curse the darkness -- Some simple steps you can take, to overcome the various lacunae in our system. Costs nothing. Can give spectacular results !
    
   Who is a mathematician ? -- A question which is easy to ask, but very difficult to answer without getting into controversies.

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Prof. Partha's maths bookmarks

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BEST OF INDIA

• National Board of Higher Mathematics (NBHM)
• Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
• Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Madras (Chennai)
  The IMSc Home PageI M Sc -- Institute of Mathematical Sciences, located in Chennai (nee Madras), India, is one of the fine institutions where research and teaching go hand in hand on a variety of maths and computer science related subjects. If you have a serious interest in maths, visit this institution today.
• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
• Mehta Research Institute, (aka Harish Chandra Research Institute) Allahabad
• Chennai Mathematical Institute(aka SPIC Science Foundation)
• Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay (Mumbai)
• Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana -- one more fine institution of higher mathematics. This institution is based in Pune, India.
  Subscribe now, to Bona Mathematica, an excellent journal, especially if you are interested in "maths olympiad". Bona mathematica comes to you from Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana.
• Mathematics Resource Centre of IIT Bombay. Very good stuff here.
  
• Visit The Indian Maths Olympiad - cell
  See how good we are , when it comes to international maths events like this.
  
  

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HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS

PEOPLE

• Mathematicians born in India (just like Partha)
  
  
• Just look at this amazing list of mathematicians who were born in France You will understand why France is such a great country ! The French are so fond of maths, they have about a 100 streets in Paris, named after mathematicians And they have placed spcial commemorative plaques on the Eiffel Tower, to honour mathematicians. (Note: Partha did his Ph D from France)
  
  
• math faces
  
  
• A letter from Raoul Bott to Michael Atiyah is here
  
  
• Princeton Univ. in the early fifties, saw a galaxy of mathematicians like this.
  
  
• Biographies of famous mathematicians (They forgot my name ! --- partha)
  
  
• John Allen Paulos Home Page
  
  
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  
  
• Arnold Reinhold's Papers
  
  
• AlanTuring.net Tribute to a genius. This site is about "the man who knew too much".
  
  
• Excellent place to locate woman mathematicans.
  
  
• Bhama Srinivasan -- an (the only) Indian woman mathematician in the above list. We are proud of you Prof. Bhama Srinivasan !
  
  
• Number Recreations by Shyam Sunder Gupta See what this engineer from Indian railways has created. This is what we call as "innovative creativity"
  
  
• Dr. R. Standler's personal homepage
  
  
• What is your "Erdos number" ?
   
• Who was Erdos ?
   
• Erdos numbers of Indian mathematicians (An interesting, and socially responsible project from Algologic Research and Solutions)
   

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SOME BRANCHES OF MATHS

For very obvious reasons, not every branch of mathematics can be included in this section. I have included only a few randomly chosen topics. There is no specific reason why these topics were retained whereas other topics have not been included here.

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MATH PUBLISHING

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INSTITUTIONS (outside India)

• MathSciNet Homepage Colossal and awesome collection of material on mthematics. A production of the American Mathematical Society. According to the preamble of this web page -- 12714 items added in 2005; 1799 journals covered; links to 496089 original articles; 10843 active reviewers; 425412 authors indexed.
  
  
• School of Analytic Studies and Information Technology
  
  
• Math- thinking Info Page This list is the "meeting place" for a group of computer scientists interested in incorporating mathematical reasoning into Computer Science courses and curricula. The group expects to generate specific projects aimed at encouraging others to incorporate mathematical reasoning into their curricula. This list serves as a place to disucss these projects, as well as to discuss other issues related to mathematical reasoning in computer science.
  
  
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  
  
• mathschallenge.net
  
  
• Wolfram research's mega encyclopedia on maths.
  
  
• Well out of reach: Why hard problems are hard - Culberson, Gent (ResearchIndex)
  
  
• The Math Forum Home PageAn excellent place to hang around, if you love maths. If you have questions, just "ask dr. Math" (follow the link with that name).
  
  

• Isaac Newton institute for mathematical sciences

  Here is a quick intro -- newton institute introThis is the wikipedia entry of Newton Instt.
  
  
• The royal society
  
  

• American Math. Society (AMS)

  Mathematics subject classification (MSC)
  How to use the use the MSC.
  
  Mathematics Subject Classification (pdf file)
  
  ams compilation of math resources
  
  
• Front for the Mathematics ArXiv
  
  
• The Automation of Proof: A Historical and Sociological Exploration
  
  
• CSC Mathematical Topics: Some interesting WWW services
  
  
• CSC Mathematical Topics
  
  
• Penn State Department of Mathematics: Cool Stuff on the Web
  
  
• Penn State Department of Mathematics
  
  
• Mathematics Information Servers
  
  
• Science Resources on the Web
  
  
• The Prime Pages (prime number research, records and resources) What is so "prime" about prime numbrs ? Find out for yourself here.
  
  
• Fermat's last theorem
  
  
• Maine Math Talent Search : Math Links
  
  
• Welcome to the IMU Server
  
  
• MathGate Homepage
  
  
• MTTS Home Page
  
  
• Association for women in mathematics (AWM)
  
  
• CLAY maths Institute
  
  
• COURANT Institute of mathematical sciences
  
  

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Journals and Societies

• Journals : Links to maths journals
  
  
• Societies : Mathematical societies
  
  
• International Mathematical Union
  
  
• Asian journal of maths
  
  
• Web journals
  
  

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EVENTS

If you are organising an event related to mathematics (symposium, seminar, workshop, tutorial etc.), this is the best place to make an announcement. Let the world know. This service is free ! (YES, free, gratis). Please give us a URL to where we can link. No direct announcements here. We will add a link to your page. If you wish, we can also add a small graphic image (logo, banner etc.). Please e mail us the graphic image file (png, jpg or gif).

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HELP... SOS

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RESOURCES, TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS

• Maple
  Maple home page
  A very good, and simple-to-use package for a wide range of mathematical problems.
  
  
• Mathematica
  The leader in software for symbolic mathematics.
  
  
• matlab
  Very popular amongst students. Useful for solving a wide range of maths problems. Has lots of tool boxes. Integrates easily with other popular applications.
  
  
• SCILAB This mega mathematical tool box comes from INRIA, France. Contains maths tool boxes for everything which one can dream of. Comes with well-written, detailed documentation (in English).And, above all, it is FREE ! Your own copy is available here.
  
  
• Look at all the options you have (for free). This is a list of matlab alike and related packages And one more : GAMS -- Guide to available maths software -- is a catalogue of good maths packages available on the net. Here is a list of packages for symbolic and specialised mathematics. Here is a list of graphics and visualisation packages.
  
  Other resources
  
  
• Mathematically correct Teachers ! please look at this site first and see how you can improve teaching of maths. See the concerns and the suggestions of a whole lot of responsible people.
  
  
• The Abacus: Index
  
  
• The Abacus: Resources for Teachers
   

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DISCUSSION GROUPS AND FORUMS

• ==== home page. starter page
• ==== details about math thinking

This list is the "meeting place" for a group of computer scientists interested in incorporating mathematical reasoning into Computer Science courses and curricula. The group expects to generate specific projects aimed at encouraging others to incorporate mathematical reasoning into their curricula. This list serves as a place to disucss these projects, as well as to discuss other issues related to mathematical reasoning in computer science. More information related to this group is available here

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LATEX -- THE BEST THING THAT HAPPENED TO MATHEMATICAL PUBLISHING

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TRIVIA

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COLLECTIONS OF LINKS

• maths in tens ....an innovative view of maths
  
  
• Yahoo! Science : Mathematics : Top page of Yahoo catalogue for mathematics. You can find almost anything you want, if you follow this Yahoo Classification.
  
  
• Mathematics WWW Virtual Library [FSU Math]
  
  
• Math Form: Links
  
  

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ENTERTAINMENT

• Who says maths is boring ? Who says mathematicians have no sense of humour ? Here is the lighter side of mathematics
  
  
• Enjoy this amazing collection of maths puzzles. This page gives you not only the puzzles, but also hints and even solutions.
  
  
• The recreational mathematics page of Mathworld is the best source for some very interesting aspects of mathematics.
  
  
• http://www.mathmistakes.com/ How to create wrong mathematics.
  
  
• Math in the Movies
  
  

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DOWNLOAD GOODIES

Free for you !

• Scilab V3
  -- a very rich and exhaustive software package for doing symbolic and numerical mathematics. You get the complete Scilab software for free, in this CDROM. You will also get all the documentation, you may need about Scilab.
   
  
• Prof. Partha's tutorial on graph theory All your questions and doubts about graph theory -- answered here. This project is still under development. This is only a preview version.
   
  
• Prof. Partha's papers on teaching of mathematics

  Why is it so difficult to teach (mathematics) ?
  The futility of teaching mathematics to engineering students in India (pdf file)

• FREE e-books :
  

  These are pdf files. You must have the software for reading pdf files (e.g. acroread , in Linux). And, your software must be linked correctly to your browser, so that the browser can invoke the software automatically.
   
  Rienhard Diestel -- Graph theory
  This book from a German Professor, gives a thorough exposure to the fascinating subject of graph theory. And , like all products from Germany, this book does a thorough job.
   
  J A Bondy & U S R Murty -- Graph theory with applications
  This book is considered to be a classic. It is perhaps the best book on the subject.
  

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