Intuitive Maths -II: The Cartoonist's approach to 'get' Maths
Many Students are afraid of Mathematics. Many others hate it. Most others learn to do it because they have to do it to get good marks or to get a good job. Most find it too abstract and unconnected to real life. So they find it uninspiring and therefore, hard and boring.
This is the second in a series of special lectures that will show that maths can be taught and learned in a more intuitive manner so that we 'get' maths. Not just think of it as a bunch of unintelligible formulae that we reluctantly plug and use but that each formulae represents an elegant idea.
In this session, we learn to appreciate the central idea in nay topic, theorem, formula, equation, function, expression or identity by looking at it as a cartoonist would. Not to be like a photographer nd capture the exact similitude of the idea but to focus on what is the uniqueness of this new thing we are encountering. Once we 'get' what is so striking or distinct about this new idea, we can easily relate to the formal definition to explore it fully.
This uniqueness of an idea based approach bring the idea to life and we fall in love with exploiting this insight in our vocabulary and it will stay with us for ever.
We cannot forget it even if we want to.
This should appeal to children of any age and adults too. Whether you are learning Geometry in class VII or Algebra in class VIII, whether you are learning Trigonometry in class IX or Statistics in class X, be it Derivatives class 11 or Differential Equations in Class XII, Linear Algebra in your BStat, or Fourier Transforms in Engineering, whether you are Learning Python as a coder or Discrete Mathematics as a CS student, this will enable you to not just to keep up but to find innovative ways of using the idea to solve the toughest of problems.
Not just use it for earn marks but to love it with a passion. Not just do it as an assignment but to wrestle with it as a pastime. And If as a side effect, you appear more intelligent, become a better student, an insightful colleague or a higher earning professional, then that should be indeed be a happy occurrence!
So gather your brother, sister, neighbour, classmate, friend and parents this Sunday at 5:30 PM and sit back and enjoy this second session on how to enjoy the idea of ideating ideas, also known as maths!
Aug 2, 2020 • 1h 15m
Bhaskar Garimella