Posted March 5, 2012
The twelve senior students of CFL, sixteen to eighteen years old, traveled to Gujarat this December to spend twelve days in Juna Mozda, a small hamlet in the Satpura forest. We were guests of Michael Mazgaonkar, Swati Desai and the Vasava tribal people of Mozda. A short but intense stay such as this has been [...]
Posted March 3, 2012
Every year, student groups at CFL go travelling to various places in India as part of the curriculum. The group is more or less homogeneous (a two-year spread at the most), and small in size (even fifteen students can be an unwieldy number!). Destinations are chosen by the teachers taking the group, and the planning [...]
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A tesselation in Mathematics is a repeating tile pattern, where the tiles are all identical, or of only two or three kinds. In a tessellation there are no gaps between the tiles, nor any overlapping. Certain geometrical shapes tessellate, such as squares, triangles, rectangles, parallelograms and hexagons. During the Second Term of 2011-12, fifteen Middle [...]
Posted February 16, 2012
A distinction many people draw in the field of learning is between “academic” and “non-academic” pursuits. In our past brochures and publications, we too have made such a distinction. It seems to be based on a simple classification scheme: subjects (such as history, math, language and science) are academic, and extra-curricular activities (such as carpentry, [...]