NIIT Launches ‘NIIT eGuru Math Lab’ at Ryan International School, Bangalore

• A Revolutionary Concept Aimed to Make Learning Mathematics Simple & Fun for Students

Bangalore, 7 January, 2011: Launching a breakthrough initiative that aims at making the vital subject of mathematics simpler, easier and fun to learn for school students, leading Global Talent Development Corporation and Asia’s largest IT trainer- NIIT, today installed the state-of-the-art ‘NIIT eGuru Math Lab’, at Ryan International School in Bangalore. Ms. Grace Pinto, Managing Director, Ryan International Group of Institutions, inaugurated the revolutionary concept in presence of Lt. Col. Tarun Govind Mathur, Vice-President, School Learning Solutions, NIIT Ltd.

‘NIIT eGuru Math Lab’ is a novel concept which enables school students to learn and explore mathematical concepts and verify mathematical facts and theorems using Multiple Teaching and Learning Aids.

Lt. Col. Tarun Govind Mathur, Vice-President, School Learning Solutions, NIIT Ltd., commented, “NIIT is committed to make education more impactful, interactive and fun filled for teachers and students alike. ‘NIIT eGuru Math Lab’ is yet another initiative by us to make the present curriculum simpler and interesting, thereby bringing back the joy of learning Mathematics. We are delighted to now launch our ‘NIIT eGURU Math Lab’ at Ryan International School, Bangalore, that will help young Ryanites comprehend the subject better.”

Speaking at the launch of ‘NIIT eGuru Math Lab’, Ms. Grace Pinto, Managing Director, Ryan International Group of Institutions, said, “We are pleased to announce our partnership with NIIT Ltd, to enable school students to learn, verify and explore mathematical concepts, facts and theorems by leveraging technological tools in making education more impactful and interactive. Based on the three pillars of ‘Imagination, Investigation and Interaction’, NIIT’s Math Lab will provide an opportunity to students to understand, internalize, discover and verify the basic mathematical and geometrical concepts through concrete objects and situations, thus building interest and confidence in students learning the subject. The laboratory also allows and encourages the students to think, discuss amongst themselves as well as with the teachers, and assimilate concepts.”

In addition to providing greater scope for individual participation in the process of learning and becoming autonomous learners, the Math Lab also enables the teacher to demonstrate, explain and reinforce abstract mathematical ideas by using concrete objects, models, charts, graphs, pictures, posters, etc.

NIIT recently associated with the Government of Gujarat to set a New Guinness World Record in simultaneous Chess, where 20,480 players played Chess together, under the guidance of World Chess Champion and NIIT MindChampion Viswanathan Anand.
About Ryan International Group of Institutions

The Ryan International Group of Institutions (RIGI) blend high value deliveries with modern learning tools to ensure that each of the institution has a safe, healthy, positively  energizing, intellectually challenging, learning & enjoyable environment, committed to engage students in active, collaborative & technology based learning methodologies &  to develop formative & summative assessments of students learning.

RIGI started its first school in Mumbai way back in 1976 & after a span of 30 years, have grown into a total of 105 institutions, providing quality education to a total of 200,000 students, facilitated by ten thousand educators who are trained to channelize all their energy & resources towards child centered qualitative learning.

The RIGI institutions were amongst the first to introduce comprehensive education on environmental conservation, personality development & computer education. The Group has a five- pronged approach (KASSM) for the overall development of the students – Knowledge, Attitude, Skills, Social Values & Moral Values.

The group owes its success to the excellent team developed by the Founder Chairman Dr. A. F. Pinto, who is ably supported by its Managing Director Madam Grace Pinto.