Can i make something that links mathematics to the real world ? can I create something which allows the child to link mathematics to his day-to-day life ? can I do something which encourages the child to grow his interest in this beautiful discipline ?
What can be done to make mathematics less of a problem subject and more of a fun subject ?
As a first step, I've decided to create some situations from real life which involve the use of mathematics and which do not appear to be a drag on the child ( certainly not like a problem in a text book )
Some of the questions from that are written below . I would welcome your ifeedback and similar such questions to build a repertoire of such day to day life situations which can facilitate and enhance the understanding of this beautiful subject of mathematics.
Q1) Every morning , at Jaadoo s house, three alarms go off at 7 AM. The Nokia alarm , the iPhone alarm and the Blackberry alarm. The snooze time for the nokia alarm is three-minutes, the snooze time for the iPhone alarm is five minutes, and the snooze time for the Blackberry alarm is seven minutes.
After 7 AM when will it all the three alarms go off together again assuming they are continuously snoozed ?
Q2 ) draw a triangle with a scale and compass having sides of 3 cm 4 cm 5 cm.
After you have finished drawing determine the square of each of the sides and check what is the relationship between them. Can this take you to ancient Greece ?
Q3 ) in an El classico match between real Madrid and Barcelona , the real Madrid team is playing very rough. Messi and Neymar are both in the starting line up.
Neymar is injured after 5/18 th of the total match and Messi is injured after 11/18 th of the total match.
How many minutes did Messi and Neymar play in all in this match and how many of them were together ?
Q4) Jaadoo puts Rs 23 in his piggybank every day starting from his birthday in 2014 ( the reason for this is that Jaadoo s birthday is on the 23rd of March ). How much money has he collected till the day of Harry Potter's birthday in 2014. How much will he collect till Superman s next birthday ?
Q5) Jaadoo had Rs.3600 in his piggybank . his mama and papa want to borrow money from him for the uber cab as they have no cash in their wallets and only have cards. His mamma borrows 1/6 of the money and his Papa borrows double of what his mama borrowed . how much money is left with in his piggybank ?
Q6) Jaadoo s school collects Rs.20 lakhs as total fees every month from its 500 students. If the number of students becomes 575, how much money every month will it collect in fees ? How much will be the collection of fees in a quarter ?
Q7) draw a football field of length 80 m and width 40 m clearly showing the penalty area with distance of 20 m from the goal-line. At what angle would a corner need to be taken so that the kick directly sends the ball into the goal
Q8) draw an isosceles triangle in which The unequal side is 6 cm and is one and half times of each equal side. What is the relation of the sum of its angles to the duration of a football match.
Q9) draw a triangle in which one angle is 40° and the other angle is double of it.
Q 10 ) Jaadoo Has 22 TinTin books at home. He also has 18 asterix books, 50 Amar Chitra katha s and 10 chacha chaudhuri s.
What fraction of the total books are asterix books ?
Then, he is gifted 6 Harry Potter books. What fraction of the total are TinTin books ?
