Let’s take a look at what others have said about Play –
- Play is the highest form of research. – Albert Einstein
- Play is our brain’s favourite way of learning. – Diane Ackerman
- Almost all creativity involves purposeful play. – Abraham Maslow
We promote unsupervised play time at Maths2Art without any benchmark to be achieved.
Play to experience uncertainty, failures, sticking on, giving up and again picking it on for the joy of playing.
How many kilometres can you run in a go? That’s your running capacity. Right?
How much can you think in one go without any clue? That’s your thinking capacity.
To increase our running capacity, we do regular runs, stretches, exercises …. No body is born runner. Everyone needs to practice.
What do we do to increase our thinking capacity?
In future, problems ( life, job, relations, environmental) will be very different from current times. Accumulated information, byproduct of our formal education will not be very useful in day to day life. It is their thinking capacity (without any clue) which will help them in their day to day lives.
We use various games, puzzles to keep them engaged during their thinking exercises and we encourage them to understand the process of self learning.
At maths2art, we make children think and continuously work towards increasing their thinking capacity.
Maths2Art is a place where self study is promoted and colloborative learning is encouraged.
Students taste constructive struggle & productive failure to become Mathematical thinkers & problem solvers.
Let’s take a look at what others have said about Play –
- Play is the highest form of research. – Albert Einstein
- Play is our brain’s favourite way of learning. – Diane Ackerman
- Almost all creativity involves purposeful play. – Abraham Maslow
We promote unsupervised play time at Maths2Art without any benchmark to be achieved.
Play to experience uncertainty, failures, sticking on, giving up and again picking it on for the joy of playing.
I observed that many high grade achievers show reluctance to join this play time. They are so used to structured problem solving that an unknown challenge without any method given looks impossible to them.
The fear of not performing great overshadows the curiosity to give it a try. They say – I don’t know how to solve it.
I reply – neither I. Go ahead and try it.
There is no time limit and even if you don’t get the right solution, we are ok.
They don’t quickly jump into this game of uncertainty. Their wish to always perform great keeps holding them back. Slowly, when they experience the excitements of making mistakes, trying again, failing and trying again with another approach in head…. I see a subtle change in whole personality. They become more open minded to try unknown problems.
Fear of not performing great and wish to be on top starts melting down with this free play time at Maths2Art.
Come and join us for our Power of Play sessions!
