Kashmir Math Festival
Kashmir: IUST holds Math Festival to attract school kids
Awantipora/IBNS: To encourage creative thinking and discovery among the school students, the Department of Mathematical Sciences of Islamic University of Science & Technology (IUST) Wednesday organised a Math Festival as part of their ongoing ‘International Day of Mathematics’ celebrations.
Targeting school children, the festival included innovative activities on insightful mathematical ideas for more than 150 students from ninth to 12th standard representing several districts of the valley.
The festival was inaugurated by Vice Chancellor Prof Shakil A Romshoo, who was the Chief Guest at the event.
Prof Romshoo said, “Such creative initiatives especially targeted at our community and particularly the new generation is responsible for establishing IUST as a socially responsible institution."
A key part of the festival was an interactive exhibition on topics like ‘fourth dimension’, ‘math of soap bubbles’, ‘clock arithmetic’, ‘estimation of pi’, ‘rubber sheet geometry’ and ‘math in arts and crafts’.
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