Jamui, 7 December (IANS). Shobha Singh, a government school teacher in Jamui district of Bihar, teaches children in a unique style. To the children who run away from mathematics, she teaches it like a game with the help of paper. Due to which the desire to study this subject has increased among children. On Saturday he spoke exclusively to IANS.
Shobha Singh, a teacher of Kritianand High School, a government school in Malaypur area of Barhat block of Jamui district of Bihar, is famous for teaching mathematics in a unique style. Due to teaching mathematics in an innovative way using pieces of paper or household items, this teacher has become a topic of discussion among the children as well as in the entire village. Through these, mathematical terms like triangle, diameter, area, distance, height and circle are easily explained to the students through games and experiments. Due to this, the interest of students who run away from subjects like mathematics has increased in this subject.
Shobha Singh makes the study of science very interesting by using household appliances. He has also received awards for this work. In view of this creativity and innovation of Shobha Singh, she was awarded the ‘Innovation Recognition Award’.
Speaking to IANS, Shobha Singh said, there are many tricks in mathematics which children do not understand. We explain them in a very easy way. Small things of mathematics, like area, perimeter, height and distance, all these things are explained to children through tricks. They are taught to find the height of any object with the help of protractometer and hypsometer. After this, the curious children found out the height of the trees present in the school premises and told us.
He further said that apart from mathematics, there are many things in science which are taught to children. We do not have lab facilities, yet many experiments are conducted so that children can understand things easily.
He told that a total of 11 teachers of the state were honored for innovation by the Bihar government, of which I was also one. This award was for innovation.
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