Category: Math
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The travel around FIFA 2026
Its FIFA fever everywhere!! As the teams are closing on the Round of 32 and heading to the Round of 16, I recently found an interesting infographic from usatoday that analyses teams’ travel routes when they advance to the Round of 16. It shows the distance of travel between venues from the Round of 32 to…
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KitKat Break
Did you hear on the news of the heist? Well, it’s not money or gold. It’s about chocolates! A sweet heist! Nestlé kicked off the first full season of KitKat as the official chocolate partner of Formula 1 in 2026. To amplify this partnership, KitKat has created a molded chocolate masterpiece in the shape of an F1 car – the first…
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Making sense of algorithms
As mentioned in the previous post of “How to model place values and their relationship”, (https://connect2context.com/2025/12/11/how-to-model-place-values-and-their-relationship/) place value gives meaning to numbers and shows their magnitude. Understanding place value helps one to find meaningful connections between mathematical operations. Also, it helps one reason the logic behind the formulae and algorithms we use by rote memorizing. To…
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How big is the FIFA Prize money hike?
Well, few months ago we did a task based on the prize money hike for Champions trophy. Now, it’s the turn of FIFA! FIFA has announced about 50% increase in World Cup prize money for next year’s tournament, with the champions set to take home a reward of $50 million. The prize money will be…
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How to model place values and their relationship
Place value is the most basic and important skill, without which building operations on top of it becomes meaningless. It tells us about the value of each digit in the numbers than seeing it as a separate number. Building number sense becomes easy when one understands the real meaning of the digits in the numbers…
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Last week in Numbers
Numbers help in understanding the magnitude and the role they play in representing various events or trends in the world. The news last week had lots to do with numbers. Why are those numbers important? How big were those numbers? When it gives us a context to explore some place value concepts with some engaging questions, why…
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Math with GST 2.0
Someone who is new to GST? Well, then here is a quick introduction to get you started. The recent Next-Gen GST Reform, which was implemented with effect from 22 September 2025, has introduced several significant changes. These reforms are designed to benefit individuals and organisations across a variety of sectors. Exploring Percentages: An Applied Task…
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What’s in the date today?
Dates often carry interesting numerical patterns that can be fun and meaningful to observe. So, what’s in the date today? No matter how it is written, DD/MM/YY or MM/DD/YY 16/9/25 or 9/16/25 Some questions to ask to help make observations: There are many relations one could observe. One might say, adding the values of ‘DD’ and…
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Making sense of BODMAS/PEMDAS
We do various mathematical operations in our daily life right from shopping essentials to product designing and manufacturing. Some involve a very simple calculation using a single operation, while others require multiple operations cascaded with one another. BODMAS/PEMDAS helps solve the expression involving multiple operations using the order of operation specified. Let us take this…
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Investigating Quadrilaterals – Part 3
On analysing the properties of different quadrilaterals in Part 1 and Part 2, (https://connect2context.com/2025/03/20/investigating-quadrilaterals/ and https://connect2context.com/2025/03/26/investigating-quadrilaterals-part-2/) here is a ‘Quadrilateral Classification tree‘ which would be helpful in understanding their grouping, when used in conjunction with the ‘Quadrilateral Chart’ table in the Part 1. The above chart is read as ‘Square is a rectangle’;…
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