How does one think out of the box? In a first, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has announced a course on “Out of the Box Thinking” through mathematics.
Aiming to encourage innovative thinking and targeted at one million schoolchildren and college students, besides working professionals and researchers, the three-month course will be available in online mode, free of cost, to people in India and abroad.
“The ‘out of the box’ thinking is solving problems through an indirect and creative approach, using reasoning that is not immediately obvious and involving ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step