Smart Hands - on Math comprises a set of 5 books for Classes I - V. It is specially designed to help students develop mathematical skills with confidence. It provides the students a learning environment that would encourage the growth of inherent and intuitive skills in the subject naturally. These books help in bringing out the innate potential of students in a holistic and integrated manner.
A concerted effort has been made through these books at developing the following skills in the child:
- Number sense while handling math concepts
- Spatial skills through learning geometrical shapes
- Language and analytical skills by tackling word problems
- Real-life application skills by working out problems dealing with day-to-day life
Key Features:
1. Math in Action - Reinforces the concepts with lively, hands-on math lab activities to enhance the learning levels.
2. Smart Fitness - Quick test with a set of MCQ at the end of each lesson on all key concepts and an associated questionnaire to self-assess where they stand with respect to each concept taught.
3. Smart Connect - Take home projects to further enhance the math concepts learnt at school.
4. Smart Workout - Variety of practice exercises after each concept to help students improve problem solving and application skills.
5. Smart Fast Track - A set of Objective questions to test the mental arithmetic skills of students.
6. Smart Try - FA Activities for children to explore the learnt concepts further.
7. HOTS - Brainteasers to stimulate the young learners.
8. Smart Facts - Interesting snippets to inspire the young learners and increase the thirst for knowledge.
9. Value Based Questions - Key values integrated into math concepts to strengthen essential human values amongst students.
Smart Hands-on Math Skills is a math practice series for classes I - V. It provides plenty of interesting and systematic exercises for developing and improving the necessary math skills at primary level. Smart Hands-on Math Skills aims to give adequate practice in various math concepts in a low stress environment as envisaged by every math teacher or parent. Appropriate activities and real life oriented questions enhance the motivational level of the child and appreciation for the subject. There is a wide scope for problem solving and exploration with the variety of activities and worksheets provided in this series.
Key Features:
1. Aptly graded activities and worksheets for every math concept.
2. Activities to improve quick and short-cut computational skills.
3. Worksheets leading to inter – disciplinary approach.
4. Activities to apply the learnt concepts in real – life problems.
5. Worksheets to improve Problem Solving Skills.
6. Challenging problems to build Higher Order Thinking Skills.
7. Multiple Choice Questions.
Smart Hands-on Art & Craft comprises a set of 7 books for Pre-primary to Class V specially designed to improve the hand and eye coordination and motor skills of students during their growing up years. It helps to build strong value based learning in the young minds as they work on lively art and craft activities.
1. Art of mixing of primary colours and various forms of colouring and painting through a variety of exercises.
2. Hand and eye coordination & development of motor skills through drawing by joining the dots, drawing of simple structures to advanced structures, and exploring nature through the colouring eye of students with value based messages are the salient features of this series.
3. Crafty ideas from day-to-day wastes teaching kids the art of waste management in an interesting way.
4. Group Activities that teach students on coming together, sharing together, working together, and succeeding together.
Smart Hands-on Computer Skills, is a series of five books for classes I - V which attempts to introduce children to the basic computers skills and enjoy the use of technology for various purposes in day-to-day life. This series helps students acquire basic computer skills and also to learn MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel programs using windows 7 Operating System. Each new concept has been introduced through lively conversation between the two characters and explained with lot of illustrations. Each book is accompanied with an interactive CD for students to learn and practice concepts through interesting activities. CD also provides real time sample test to prepare students for Cyber Olympiad and various computer science based quiz or competitions.
Key Features:
1. Time to Practice - Interesting exercises to reinforce the concepts learnt.
2. Time to Answer - Various types of exercises on the topics covered in the lesson.
3. Time to Apply - Hands on lab activities to apply the learnt concepts.
4. Time to Grasp - Quick tips to make the computer usage more effective.
5. Time to Master - Revision of all topics to master the concepts in the book.
6. Time to Connect - Take home projects to further enhance the concepts learnt.
7. Teacher’s Tips - Guides the teachers on ways to approach the difficult topics.
8. Time to Refresh - CD with interactive activities and Cyber Olympiad sample test to reinforce the concepts learnt.
9. Extra Byte - Interesting facts related to the concepts.
10. Value Based Questions - Strengthen the essential human values.
