As promised, the boldungu team is taking learning mathematics to another level. Today we launch the awards and badges feature. Let the learners do the math and be motivated by the awards and badges. Some are individual with a specific target, others are on the class level and others competitive for all learners. We are still focusing on primary 3 to primary 7 mathematics. If your child or your friends child or your neighbors child is not learning math with boldungu, its time to signup now at https://boldungu.com. Everybody has chance to make friends with mathematics and unlock dreams.
We have a variety of awards including daily, weekly and monthly awards. Some awards depend solely on the learner while other are competitive based on other learners in the same level, topic or entire system. Awards include Five Star, Excellent Effort, Rising Star, among others
Boldungu is becoming very exciting as some schools have started approaching our team to enroll their students at special prices such that we save their teachers time and resources to print and mark homework every day.
Good enough, whereas boldungu is designed for individual learners and parents, our coupon feature has been fine tuned to allow a group of learners from one school to be identified and allowed special prices.
More interesting, the system allows all learners to be given similar quiz sets built by our advanced algorithms from the topic of choice. We are truly happy to be contributing to the next generation of scientists. Our focus still remains Mathematics for primary 3 to primary 7 because we think this is a very critical foundation stage.
Even the most prepared student needs a good strategy to write and pass an exam under the examination conditions.
One trick that is tested and works for sure is to start with the easy questions. Pass through the paper and identify the easy questions and start with them. Firs, the easy questions give you rhythm. Secondly, while working on the easy question you can use the extra brain power to recall some aspects of the hard questions.
Third, should you run out of time, you would have already banked your marks on the easy questions. Of course while spending time on the easy questions, be mindful of the marks allocated to them.
A good strategy can help to eliminate panic, maximize the possible marks from an examination.
When we started the boldungu project, many people were asking how the boldungu team is able to have fun with mathematics when most people find mathematics very challenging.
A simple chat with each of the boldungu team members revealed a consistent piece of advice. Get ride of the idea “mathematics is difficult” from your brain. Failure starts from the brain with poor attitude towards mathematics.
One team member argued that every body has the ability to excel in mathematics as long as you take on challenges with all your energy and zeal. “Practice music consistently, you will improve, practice athletics, you will improve and so goes for mathematics” – said another team member..
At Boldungu we make it easy to practice and track your progress. Get boldungu as a web or mobile application from google play store. Love mathematics, it will love you!
During the lockdown, I have had time to cleanup one of my old projects. The project initially intended for home use, has proved interesting for the larger public.
While helping out on homework with my children I noticed that children quickly get bored by print textbooks because of the same questions and content. Besides, children like being children and the books easily get into a very sorry state. The other problem I have found with conventional textbooks is that they have a fixed set of questions on given topic. Whenever we go through a book just a few times, and then use it to revise, children just apply rote learning and recite the book without understanding, applying or remembering the underlying concepts. I ended up spending much time creating variations of the same questions to allow variety and practice. Interestingly, with a small change in a digit or phrasing , the child struggles to answer of fails to answer something similar to what he or she has been reciting in the book.
I want to use this post to explain what boldungu is about. It is learning service for primary schools that we have been working on since 2018. The target is mathematics for the early learners. The best way to understand boldungu is to look at it as a platform for helping learners practice to master mathematics.
When we say Boldungu is determined to create fun with mathematics, see what we mean in the screen capture below. No rote learning and no cramming. Because each question is specially built using Boldungu Advanced Artificial Intelligence, together with the answer and explanation. No recorded videos, no record audio, no pre-determined questions. Every thing on the fly but specific to the class as per the Uganda Primary curriculum. If you have a learner in primary 3 to primary 7, create an account on https://boldungu.com and test drive for yourself.
Today, let me answer the question that has been on the minds and lips of Boldungu users and competitors regarding the meaning of Boldungu. This uniquely African name is a creative combination of two words “Bold” and “Adungu”. Our platform aims to be bold and decisive in leading the way mathematics should effectively be made easy, meaningful and natural for every learner.
While we aim to be bold in our design, delivery and learner engagement, fun for learners is never to be compromised. Adungu is a stringed musical instrument of the Alur people of northwestern Uganda that is an arched harp of varying dimensions, ranging from seven to ten strings or more. The truly African music produced by the Adungu instrument and the way the Alur people enjoy adding is a constant reminder that fun must be constant in whatever we do.
In fact, bold and adungu is repetition because the design of the adungu instrument is uniquely bold. As described by wikipedia, the physical form of the adungu derives from uniquely African origins. The instrument is made of a hollowed-out slab of wood, which is covered by two pieces of leather, woven together in the center. The upper piece of leather functions as a soundboard, and a wooden rib supports it, serving also as a structure to secure the strings to the soundboard. A curved wooden neck, containing a tuning peg for each note, is inserted into the end of the instrument’s body. The strings run diagonally from the tuning pegs in the neck to the rib in the center of the body.
With Bold and adungu combining into Boldungu, our team must be extremely creative to deliver this ambition especially when we are shaping younger minds from primary 3 to primary 7 with mathematics, the language of science. Have fun with mathematics, practice makes perfect, https://boldungu.com
After releasing the boldungu learning technology to the public 4 days ago, i have been receiving messages from potential users on the progress of the project. I would to mention that it is amazing to see how many unique questions we have been able to generate, mark and grade. From set concepts to algebra, fractions to geometry every child from primary 3 to primary 7 must have fun with mathematics. True to boldungu for bold learning with fun like music from adungu. Indeed we are contributing to a solid generation of the next scientists. For those not familiar with boldungu, read the release article here
