Mathematics Day celebrated

Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, December 22

Various schools and colleges across Jalandhar celebrated National Mathematics Day by showing powerpoint presentations to students and holding online quiz, poster-making competitions.

The Postgraduate Department of Mathematics of Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya organised online national quiz competition on mathematics. The event started at 10 and as many as 481 students of 18 states of India participated in the online quiz. The main objective behind the competition was to increase knowledge by solving different types of problems in a short span of time. The students who scored 80 per cent and more marks will be awarded with e-certificates. Gaurav Aggarwal of GNDU, and Shikha Verma of GGSSS Barwala, scored 100 per cent. Principal Prof Ajay Sareen congratulated the department for organising such an event.

Maths club of MGN College of Education organised National Mathematics Day virtually. College student Anjali threw light on the life of Dr Ramanujan with her poem ‘Wonderful mathematics’. Shifa highlighted the journey of Dr Ramanujan with a video on ‘Biography of Dr Ramanujan’. Garima and Vidhi reflected upon magical features of Dr Ramanujan’s mathematical concepts. Principal Neelu Jhanji paid tributes to the legendary mathematician.

To bring awareness on contributions made by renowned mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, the Department of Applied Science of Lyallpur Khalsa College Technical Campus celebrated National Mathematics Day. Around 60 students from different streams participated in the event. Simran, Shalini and Nakul won prizes in poster-making contest. Manav, Surbhi, Ajayjit and Tamanna won the prizes for powerpoint presentation. Sarthak, Pardeep, Aayush, Vishal and Adarsh Raj won quiz contest.

Sukhbir Singh Chatha, Director, Academic Affairs, and Dr SK Sood, Director, Lyallpur Khalsa College Technical Campus, appreciated the efforts of the staff and students.