This document discusses the importance of co-curricular activities in mathematics education. It defines co-curricular activities as activities that supplement classroom learning and help develop students' personalities. Some benefits mentioned include stimulating creative expression and developing leadership skills. The document recommends establishing a mathematics club and laboratory to organize fun activities that help generate interest in the typically "dry" subject of mathematics. Suggested activities include games, puzzles, surveys and exploring the history of mathematics. The goal is to make mathematics engaging and help students discover patterns on their own.

1. CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES IN
MATHEMATICS : MATHS LABORATORY
-Dr. Roma Smart Joseph
Teacher Educator
Lucknow (UP) India

2. WHAT ARE CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES?
• Activities that enable to
supplement and complement
the curricular or main syllabi
activities.
• These are the very important
part and parcel of educational
institutions to develop the
students’ personality as well as
to strengthen the classroom
learning.

3. Importance and Benefits of
Co-Curricular Activities
• Co-curricular activities stimulate playing, acting, singing, recitation,
speaking and narrating in students.
• Activities like participation in game debates, music, drama, etc., help in
achieving overall functioning of education.
• It enables the students to express themselves freely through debates.
• Games and Sports helps students to be fit and energetic.
• It helps to develop the spirit of healthy competition.
• It Guide students how to organize and present an activity, how to
develop skills, how to co-operate and co-ordinate in different situations
and develop leadership qualities.
• It provide the avenues of socialization, self-identification and self-
assessment
• It provide motivation for learning.
• It develop the values.

4. Co-curricular Activities in Mathematics
• Mathematics is considered a dry
subject by common people. It is
partially true because students
scarcely find any recreational
material in study of
Mathematics for supplementing
the teaching of Mathematics in
classroom.
• To arouse interest and
knowledge of students, a
number of co-curricular activities
can be organised.

5. Maintaining Interest in Mathematics
• Intellectual Activities
• Motivation
• Multi-sensory Aids and Devices
• Knowledge of Practical Utility
• Correlation with Other Field of study
• Vocational Values
• Practical work

6. Mathematics Clubs
• Maths clubs breathe new life into
Maths beyond the classroom.
• They focus on two things: having
fun with maths and learning.

7. Need and Importance of a Mathematics Club
• Mathematics club can be a good medium for developing students
interest.
• It may be suitable forum for organising various Mathematical activities.
• It is helpful in proper utilisation of leisure time of the students.
• It encourages a positive attitude towards Mathematics.
• It can supplement classroom teaching & simulates curiosity.
• It promotes cross-curricular thinking and the holistic development of
pupils.
• It developa a healthy interest in Mathematics as a source of interest and
achievement.
• It inspires thinking, challenge and collaboration.
• It may be a good medium of exchange of Mathematical information,
experiences, experiments and innovation.

8. Maths Laboratory • The Mathematics laboratory
is a place where anybody
can experiment and explore
patterns and ideas.
• It is a place where one can
find a collection of games,
puzzles, and other teaching
and learning material.
• The materials are meant to
be used both by the
students on their own and
with their teacher to explore
the world of mathematics,
to discover, to learn and to
develop an interest in
mathematics.
• The activities create
interest among students.

9. Some activities that can be used as co-
curricular activities in Maths Club
• Fun with Figures
• Magic Squares
• Pi Shaped Puzzle
• Magic Numbers
• Counting Cards

10. NEED AND IMPORTANCE
OFMATHEMATICS LABORATORY
• It provides an opportunity to understand and internalize the
basic mathematical concepts through concrete objects and
situations.
• It enables the students to verify or discover several
geometrical properties and facts using models or by paper
cutting and folding technique.
• It helps the students to build interest and confidence in
learning the subject.

11. NEED AND IMPORTANCE OFMATHEMATICS
LABORATORY
• The laboratory provides opportunity to exhibit the relatedness of
mathematical concepts with every day life.
• It provides greater scope for individual participation in the process of
learning and becoming autonomous learners.
• It provides scope for greater involvement of both the mind and the hand
which facilitate cognition.
• The laboratory allows and encourages students to think.
• It enables the teacher to demonstrate, explain and reinforce abstract
mathematical ideas by using concrete objects, models, charts, graphs,
pictures, posters etc

12. THE OBJECTIVES OF MATHEMATICS
LABORATORY
• Develop an attitude of enquiry.
• Remove the weakness of present
day Mathematics education.
• Generate interest in the subject.
• Make the children look for
pattern and ask questions

13. Design and General Layout
• A laboratory is equipped with
instruments, apparatus,
equipments and models apart
from facilities like water,
electricity etc.

14. Suggestive list of Co-curricular Activities for
Mathematics Laboratory
• Cricket Matches
• Age Profile survey
• Educational History survey
• History of Mathematics
• Math Calendar