Innovative maths teaching highly rated by C'wealth jury

Meghalaya's innovative teaching of maths in foundation classes, aimed at making learning of the subject easy and attractive, has been highly rated by the Commonwealth Education Good Practice Awards jury though it missed the awards by a whisker, officials said today.
The innovative teaching which was implemented in about 1,000 schools in the Khasi Jaintia Hills region of the state was shortlisted as one of the top ten finalists for the prestigious awards this year but missed it narrowly, Sarva Sikhsha Abhiyan (SSA) state project director F R Kharkongor told PTI.
He said the project was highly rated by the jury which had recommended it to be featured in a Commonwealth publication and for its publication at its website.

Commonwealth Secretariat Head of the Health and Education Unit Dr Joana Nurse had officially intimated that the SSA Meghalaya's project submission on its fledgling attempt at teaching Mathematics innovatively for foundational classes had been shortlisted as one of the Ten Top Finalists for the Commonwealth Education Good Practice Awards which is scheduled to be presented during the opening ceremony of the 19th Commonwealth Education Ministers' Meet at Bahamas on June 23.
As the name suggests, the innovative teaching of maths in foundational classes was introduced in 57 schools only as a pilot project without any government support two years ago, he said.