Last week, IISER-Mohali hosted the Mathematics Teachers Orientation Camp (MTOC) sponsored by Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE), TIFR. The objective of this camp (and similar camps conducted by HBCSE elsewhere in the country) is to introduce and expose high school mathematics teachers and educators to fresh perspectives on their subject through interactive talks and problem-solving sessions. This is not strictly bound to the school curriculum, but the topics centre around things that can be assumed to be reasonably accessible for someone out of touch with (under)graduate level mathematics for years. As a volunteer for this camp (primarily engaged in hospitality for the educators arriving on the campus), I got to interact with many of these educators who hailed from Uttarakhand and Punjab (teachers from other regions, especially J&K, Himachal, and Haryana, had to back out due to the approaching final exams). While I missed out on the opportunity to hear about the exper...
Some mathematical musings of mine