Saturday, July 29, 2006

Mathematical Project & Model-Making Competition

The Mathematical Society is organising a Mathematical Modelling & Project Making Competition for classes 8th & 9th. We expect partcipation in groups of 3 from each section. Teams are required to send in their project reports by 31st August to Maths Lab instructor Dr. Jonaki B. Ghosh. Projects shall be judged separately for classes 8th (Group A) & 9th (Group B).
After crutinising project reports, 6 projects will be selected from each group for presentation.

The following should at least give you an idea of what kind of projects to work on:

Projects based on some mathematical idea & extending it to solve some real-life or theoretical problems ( implying thougth problems).

Consider this thought problem:

I have kept bread crumbs at the corners of a pentagon. I leave an exploration loving but a hungry little bird at one of the corners. I sit back and watch it feed & explore all possible paths between the different locations of bread crumbs but without retracing any path traversed previously. What exactly I mean by a path, I would like to define. It is a line segment joining any pair of corners of the pentagon. Knowing all this, can I predict the total number of paths that can be explored & those left out ? What would be the result if I increased the number of corners? Can the result be generalised for higher polygons?

Using computer programming as a tool for problem-solving will be highly appreciated.

The event aims at encouraging team work which is the most important aspect of any collaborative research effort. In the history of science, some of the most beautiful and successful theories and discoveries that have been witnessed, have sprung from the convergence of great minds - be it the discovery of DNA double helix, the radioactive radium or neutron stars. Learning to train the mind, right from the beginning, to think-talk-work cooperatively in a group is essential.

6 Comments:

Blogger Sakshi said...

Cool.. Now, I have teamed up for this with 2 friends.. What I want to know is this that do I need to give these names to Jonaki Ma'am or u people?

Sat Jul 29, 05:42:00 am  
Blogger ANiKET said...

Don't forget to take a camera wid you, take snaps too, and when the event is over, post it here on the blog... and if any one is a nice video recorder, do record the event.. it can be used for presentation, during Mathematicial Crusade...

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Sat Jul 29, 05:50:00 am  
Blogger Adrish said...

sakshi it wud be better if u give the project report to jonaki ma'm. n its nice to see someone workin srsly for it. good luck.

Wed Aug 02, 11:09:00 am  
Blogger RaSh said...

Sending names to us or Jonaki maam means the same ;)

And yeah, we have got the pics for the Maths Workshop we had before the vacations... but sad that the video recording got spoiled a bit - coz it has got no sound!

Anyways, we are gearing up for the Class X quiz finals rite now.. cia

Sun Aug 06, 07:09:00 am  
Blogger Sakshi said...

Ok, any help required for the crusade? I don't mind missing a few classes!

But please tell me when I need to be present.. Coz I have my volleyball matches from 19-22 september...I could miss them, on the days of the crusade, but please tell me when I need to be there,... Else sir will kill me!!

Sun Sept 03, 04:21:00 am  
Blogger RaSh said...

@Adrish: Me at Cyber Cafe rite now... When r u going 2 update abt the Maths Crusade???

waiting for the post........

Sun Sept 24, 01:29:00 am  

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