arul kolla – Institute for Educational Advancement Connecting bright minds; nurturing intellectual and personal growth Fri, 10 May 2024 23:35:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ieafavicon-e1711393443795-150x150.png arul kolla – Institute for Educational Advancement 32 32 Virtual Learning Lab: Creative Problem Solving 1, Unusual Patterns /blog-virtual-learning-lab-creative-problem-solving-1-unusual-patterns/ /blog-virtual-learning-lab-creative-problem-solving-1-unusual-patterns/#respond Sat, 11 Jul 2020 01:27:46 +0000 https://ieadev.wpengine.com/blog-virtual-learning-lab-creative-problem-solving-1-unusual-patterns/ Creative Problem Solving

It seems that everyone today talks about creative problem-solving. Curriculum guides list problem-solving skills as key objectives at all levels, and professional organizations recommend that creative problem solving becomes the focus of school mathematics. Many people believe that the ability to solve problems develops automatically from mastery of computational skills. This is not necessarily true; problem-solving is itself a skill. A problem is more challenging than a typical exercise because the route to the solution is often not known beforehand, and requires some level of creativity.

Creative Problem Solving I – Unusual Patterns

In this video, 2023 CDB Scholar Arul Kolla kicks off a series of videos centered around creative problem solving by talking about “unusual patterns” — when we see patterns that go beyond traditional skip-counting, how do we approach them? In this video, we see a variety of techniques that both help solve these problems and more general ideas for the topic of creative problem-solving.

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]]> /blog-virtual-learning-lab-creative-problem-solving-1-unusual-patterns/feed/ 0 Virtual Learning Lab: Introduction to Probability I /blog-virtual-learning-lab-introduction-to-probability-i/ /blog-virtual-learning-lab-introduction-to-probability-i/#respond Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:14:04 +0000 https://ieadev.wpengine.com/blog-virtual-learning-lab-introduction-to-probability-i/ What is probability? How is it applicable to our daily lives? In this video, 2023 Caroline D. Bradley Scholar Arul Kolla discusses probability and its mathematical and practical applications. We explore the notation used by mathematicians, probability trees and sample spaces, the Principle of Inclusion-Exclusion, and many others. We finish with an activity allowing one to verify the results in the video, rather than just accepting them.

Presented by 2023 Caroline D. Bradley Scholar Arul Kolla

Required materials: paper, a die (more sides are better!) or a coin

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