12-08-2024  Monday

12Mon

Seminar by Dr. Navaneetha M. R.

Date: 12 August, 2024
Time: 15:30 - 16:30

Venue: Main Building Lecture Room - G1

Coordinator: Dean's Office

As part of the HBCSE Post-doctoral visiting fellow recruitment process, Dr. Navaneetha M. R. will be delivering a seminar on Monday, August 12, 2024, at 3:30 PM in Room G1, Main Building, HBCSE. The details of the program are as follows:

Name of the candidate:

Dr. Navaneetha M. R.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Navaneetha completed her Master's degree in Mathematics from Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala and her PhD in Mathematical Logic from Ariel University in Israel. Dr. Navaneetha is interested in analyzing students' inquiry-based approaches to learning mathematics at the secondary school level.

Title of the talk:

Promoting Students' Mathematical Inquiries with Design-based Research

Abstract of the talk:

Design-based research (DBR) is an educational approach to develop teaching and learning trajectories that focus on students' learning. I present a proposal to study the impact of the DBR approach on students' mathematical inquiry focusing on Vigyan Pratibha mathematics learning units. Additionally, we plan to design new learning resources related to trigonometry to analyze students' mathematical inquiry. The tasks will be designed to allow students to delve deeper into the geometrical interpretation of trigonometry.

At the beginning of the session, I will give a short overview of my doctoral work in Mathematical Logic titled 'Abstract elementary classes of graphs'. In my PhD work, we presented abstract elementary classes of graphs that are generalizations of elementary classes in first-order logic, and have a notion of independence satisfying the axioms of a good frame. This class of graphs has prominent properties, which can contribute to proving the categoricity conjecture.