Math + ICT = Mayhem or Magic? A POV from an ICT Teacher Surviving One Equation at a Time

Hello fellow educators,

I’m your friendly neighborhood ICT teacher , the one who gets called every time the projector blinks or the “Wi-Fi spirits” decide to play hide and seek.

And today, I want to talk about something that keeps most Math teachers awake at night (other than students writing “6+3=63”): using ICT tools to teach Mathematics in the CBSE curriculum (Grades 3–9).

So buckle up, because we’re diving into a world where fractions meet PowerPoint, geometry meets GeoGebra, and teachers meet mild existential crises while figuring out how to use Kahoot.

The Smartboard Chronicles: Where Whiteboards Go to Level Up

Math teachers, I see you. You love your rulers, protractors, and that one trusted whiteboard marker that somehow hasn’t dried out in 3 years. But what if I told you... we could plot graphs on a SMARTBOARD?

Try this: Use GeoGebra to visualize concepts like area, volume, or coordinate geometry. Your students will stop doodling in their notebooks and start screaming, “WOAH! The triangle MOVED!”

Technology 1 — Boredom 0.

Kahoot! Because Nothing Says ‘Math’ Like a Game Show Buzz

You haven’t lived until you’ve seen 9th graders nearly throw their devices across the room because they clicked the wrong answer to “What is the value of x?”

Use Kahoot or Quizizz to run math quizzes, review formulae, or even teach tables to your Grade 3 warriors.

Bonus: It doubles as cardio. Watching 8th graders jump up when they get first place is a full workout.

Microsoft Excel: Not Just for Boring Office People

Math is numbers. Excel is numbers. It’s a match made in digital heaven.

📊 Use Excel for:

• Creating bar graphs (hello Grade 6 statistics!)

• Exploring patterns

• Budget planning projects (aka teaching kids why their pocket money disappears mysteriously)

Student: “Ma’am, I didn't know Excel could do MATH!”

Me: “What did you think it did? Ordered pizza?”

Desmos: The Plot Twist You Never Knew You Needed

Ah, Desmos. The graphing calculator that makes plotting easier than making Maggi noodles.

Grade 9 algebra and linear equations come alive here—literally. Let students manipulate slopes, see changes instantly, and shout things like:“Ma’am! If I change ‘m’ to 5, the line is dancing!”

I mean, if your graphs are dancing, are you even teaching?

Classroom Screen: Because You Need Sanity Too

Sometimes you just want peace. Or a timer. Or a random name picker.

Enter ClassroomScreen.com—your control panel to keep Math class from turning into The Hunger Games.

Use it to:

• Run a digital timer during quizzes

• Set noise levels (Grade 7: I’m looking at you)

• Show instructions while you sip chai and act calm

Google Jamboard: Draw, Drop, Drag (And Hope Wi-Fi Doesn’t Crash)

For Geometry? Absolute gold. Let students drag angles, draw shapes, label diagrams—and when they mislabel a right angle as 270 degrees, gently mute yourself before screaming.

Lights, Camera, Math!

Use EdPuzzle or YouTube (wisely!) to break down tricky concepts. Grade 4 students confused about division? Play a cartoon. Grade 9 students pretending they don’t know BODMAS? Play a fun cartoon.

Bonus points if the video uses bad puns like, “Why was the equal sign so humble? Because it knew it wasn’t less than or greater than anyone!”

Student Projects: The Revenge of Real-Life Math

Let your kids create digital math projects:

• A Grade 5 student building a pixelated multiplication chart

• Grade 7 kids designing their dream theme park with area & perimeter calculations

• Grade 9s budgeting a fake vacation (and realizing they can only afford a bus to their neighbor’s house)

ICT tools help students see math, not just fear it. And let’s be honest, that’s half the battle won.

Math + ICT doesn’t have to be a horror story.

It can be a rom-com, where math finds its digital soulmate, and we "the teachers" just sit back and pretend we knew how to use GeoGebra all along.

So let’s keep making Math magical.

Let’s use technology not to replace teaching but to give it that zhoosh.

The sparkle.

The “Ma’am, this is kinda cool” moment.

And if nothing else, at least your projector remote will finally have a purpose.