Report on Ganit Week celebration at Apeejay Schools, Kolkata
Mathematics is one subject that creates a sense of magic and awe aments many.Some fear it while for
same the miracle of playing with number and solving complex sums is sheer fun. To inculcate and instill
this abstractness of mathematics into a conclave reality, Apeejay School Kolkata in association with CBSE
organized a weeklong series of workshops and hands on activities for the students to eliminate the fear
and myth the surrounds the subject under the topic GANIT WEEK
The 1st day of the Ganit week begin with a lecture on Mathematics by eminent professor Dr.Mihir Kr
Chakroborty visiting professor school of cognitive science of Jadavpur University Kolkata students of
classes 9 to 11 participated in the workshop conducted by the professor and the topic for the day was
“Understanding numbers shops representation and reasoning”. He spoke about the famous Indian
Mathematics Srivinas Ramanujan and how he contributed in the field of cognitive Science in India.
He spoke about Ramanunjan Magical number 1729.Which was a taxi number of his mentor Hardy. The
digits of the number 1729 on adding give 19 which divides the number itself. Another aspect of 1729 as
given by Ramanunjan was that it is the smallest number which can be expressed as the sum 2 cubes
=(1)2+(12)2=1729=(9)3+(10)3
Professor Mihir Chakrobarty even talked about an expression of non terminating numbers an expression
worked on by Ramanunjan.
 ax + (n+a)2 + x a(x+n)+(n+a)2+….. = a+x+n
Putting a=0 x=2 and n=1 we get the expression
 1+2 1+31+4 1+……………..
whose answer comes to 3.
A series of events followed from the next day for all the classes class 9 to 10 sat for an essay writing
competition on “the miracle Mathematician –Ramanunjan”.the subject matter of the essay written by
the students comprised of Ramanunjan’s prime and theta factors.They also enlightened us that
Ramanunjan was the pioneer in solving magic Interpreting theorems in his own logical eay.Students also
wrote that Ramanunjan’s sense of mathematics was 1st developed from a Book by GS Kar.he begin his
research in Mathematics 1900 upto 15 decimal places.
Day 3 begin with an Inter House Quiz for classes 5 and 6.Questions were based on logical
thinking,analytical reasoning and creative understanding.
Some of the questions were as follows
1.Find the value of P if
P+1=Q
Q+1=R
P+Q=15
Q+R=17
2. If ‘rain’ is called ‘Read’,’Read is called ‘Water’,’Water is called ‘cloud’ ‘cloud is called ‘sky’ ‘Sky’ is
called ‘Sea’ and ‘Sea is called ‘path’ where do aeroplane fly?
Day 4 was a day for “vedic Maths” The workshop on vedic maths won the attention of the students who
are eager to learn the ways and means of learning maths in speedy manner.
Multiplication by 11
32*11
Step 1
3
2
Step 2
3+2=5
Answer 32*11=352
Base method of multiplication
8*7
8
-2
7
-3
Day 5 started with the screening of movie shows depicting the life and works on Ramanunjan.Movies
like The Genious of Srinivas Ramanunjan,Ramanunjan’s magic square,Life of Srinivas Ramanunjan.One of
the striking aspects of the film was Ramanunjan’s “magic square”
22
12
18
87
88
17
9
25
10
24
89
16
19
86
23
11
Sum of numbers of any row=139
Sum of numbers of any column=139
Sum of corners numbers=139
Sum of central square=139
The week ended on an encouraging note with an origami workshop conducted by one of the student of
our school Samudra Ghosh.He taught the students of classes 3,4,5 the fine art of creating magic by
folding paper pieces giving the shapes of Tetrahedron and octahedron.the poster making competition
on the topic “Geometrical shapes in nature” done by classes 6,7, and 8 marked the end of the Ganit
Week