Sudheesh Venkatesh, in Deccan Herald, highlights how ​‘giving’ can take various forms like Azim Premji University’s book collections from the celebrated scientist P M Bhargava and eminent educationist David Horsburgh among others, curated with love and care.

Yash Kumar Singhal, a high school student, shares his project experience during the COVID-19 pandemic in Learning Curve magazine, which started with the idea: ​‘If we can’t go to school, why can’t the school come to us?’ 

Jyotsna Lall and Hyder Mehdi Rizvi, in Learning Curve magazine, explain how these interventions have helped the children expand their worldview, gain platforms for expression, gain confidence and positively impact attendance and thereby, regularity in attending school.

To change things, a movement is required, like never before – and each of us has a part to play, writes Harini Nagendra, who leads the University’s Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability, in Deccan Herald.

Dhanashree Paranjpe, in i wonder… magazine, explains how science can be taught from this approach, thus enabling students to improve critical thinking, gain tolerance to ambiguity, be able to recognise bias, and appreciate ethical concerns.

Sikkim SCERT took help from MGIEP, UNESCO, and Azim Premji University for this embedding which was being attempted for primary level textbooks for the first time in the world. Anupama SM and Swati Sircar, in At Right Angles (AtRiA) magazine, share their experience.

Kavita Krishna, in i wonder magazine, explains how diverse activities in the local environment give children the chance to engage in practical action by exploring the theme of water in a school located in a drought-prone district of Andhra Pradesh.

Shehnaz DK, in Learning Curve magazine, highlights how even outside the school, with activities like swimming, students overcome their fear and enjoy the activity which also teaches them about speed, body movements, and lung strength.

While many teachers report that students find these easy to understand, research shows that the models leave students with misconceptions about food relationships. Saurav Shome in i wonder… magazine explores ways to address those.

Swati Sircar, in At Right Angles (AtRiA) magazine, explains the reason behind changing definitions in textbooks with a closer look at isosceles trapeziums. She also highlights how most textbooks are not uniformly adopting this change in definition. 

Rajashree Srinivasan, in Learning Curve magazine, shares her ideas to develop an inclusive teacher preparation programme aimed at improving the learning and development of all children. 

On a day 65.5 million years ago, a piece of extra-terrestrial rock crashed into Chicxulub Puerto with an explosive power. Did the dinosaurs survive it? Do they still walk the earth? Shreya Ghosh in i wonder… magazine explores the possibility.

Jayasree, in At Right Angles (AtRiA) magazine, shares an instance where she tried to get a quantification for the idea of steepness from a group of students. She explains the need to articulate to them the reason for nudging them to a specific path. 

Vishnuteerth Agnihotri and Anagh Purandare in i wonder… magazine delve into these models and explain how a learner can be guided to recognise and replace inaccurate models of learning with scientifically accurate ones.

The mark of an educated mind is to put data to test and search for the truth. A sound knowledge of Mathematics helps. Our schools can prepare children to learn to question, become positive sceptics and not rest till they arrive at the truth, says Sudheesh Venkatesh in At Right Angles (AtRiA) magazine.

Exploring how different children engage with phenomena, like sound, may help us to think of many possible ways to engage children in scientific thinking at the middle school level, shares Anish Mokashi in i wonder… magazine.

Pooja Vishnoi in Learning Curve magazine highlights how teachers put into practice values and morals in the school environment rather than conducting a separate class for value education at Azim Premji School, Barmer.

Mohammad Umar, in At Right Angles (AtRiA), highlights how as a mathematics teacher, his interest is in finding different ways to get the answer while making sure that the students enjoy the activities.

Anurag Behar in Mint writes that questions and issues in action fields must be determined by the real world. While the National Research Foundation proposed by the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 may boost research in India, we cannot wait till then.

In her debut novel set in 1920s Bengaluru, Harini Nagendra has tried to bring out not only gendered roles and status of women but also intersectionalities of caste, class, religion, occupations, and more. Priya Varadarajan reviews the book on mon​ey​con​trol​.com.

Deborah Dutta in i wonder… magazine explains how treating urban areas as human problems and ​‘nature’ as some faraway pristine place is problematic. She stresses upon how urban farms offer us the opportunity to restore a relationship of care, reciprocity, and respect for nature.

The task of exploring how to help a shopkeeper decide the best deal for purchasing items lets students appreciate how algebra can be used in decision making, shares Sandhya Gupta in At Right Angles (AtRiA) magazine.

Worksheets present a child with opportunities to practise the skills of paying attention, recalling, planning and organising the appropriate response and self-monitoring the responses, explain Mala R Natarajan and Gowri Ramanathan in Learning Curve magazine.

Arddhendu Shekhar Dash in At Right Angles (AtRiA) magazine helps identify possible misconceptions among students in their understanding of fractions. He analyses the reason for these and suggests ways to teach for a better conceptual understanding of fractions.

Students can be encouraged to observe and document plant growth, the diversity of fauna and other life forms that the forest supports, using this method developed by the Japanese botanist, share Anand Narayanan and Radha Gopalan in i wonder… magazine.

Education is by its very nature a field of practice; it is not an effort at explaining the world. The only test of good research in education should be whether it is useful to the practice of education or not, writes Anurag Behar in Mint.

The technological advances happening around us are a result of applying mathematical techniques, results, and models to common problems. Mathematics is the foundation on which these advances rest, writes Rahul Tikekar in At Right Angles (AtRiA) magazine.