LABORATORY   BASED   MATHEMATICS   TEACHING

Narayan Ch Ghosh

E.K.T.P. Phase IV, No. C-34/4, Kolkata-700107

Email : ghosnarayan@gmail.com, Mobile : 91 9433870760, 9804223949,

ABSTRACT

Mathematical Concepts started to build in the early stage of mankind and it has been developed, refined continuously with the change of society. Mathematics of Folk life, body of traditional mathematic, originally transmitted orally and even now almost same procedure are continuing. Folk mathematics may be regarded as an undercurrent to the mainstream of mathematics; it nourishes the mainstream, and at the same time, is nurtured by it. Being extremely practical in nature it serves the daily need of the people of every walk of life. Common people with elementary education can apply it at ease to the solution of various problems arising out of everyday life, seek recreation in it, and are encouraged to devise new problems or puzzles orally, whether those are significant or trifling. But in the present developed society, people are using mathematics multifarious ways mathematics learning is associated with fears, tears, trauma and even conscious people used say, learning of mathematics is a tuff job. For folk people nature is their laboratory. Commensuration with nature based laboratory here author tried to build an idea for Laboratory based mathematics teaching in the present globalised thinking of education.