Apart from the regular math circle sessions, following are activities conducted by the Palakkad Math Circle team.

A Maths Circle Teachers Workshop, co-organized by Mathematics Teachers' Association (MTA (I)), IIT Palakkad and General Education Department, Palakkad, was held on the 7th of February 2025 at IIT Palakkad. 44 government school teachers teaching Classes 5 to 7 attended this workshop. In the first half of the workshop, the teachers were given a module called, "Do Not Divide". This module explored different known and unknown tests of divisibility. The second module was on "Perimeter Magic Polygons" like "Perimeter Magic Triangle" and "Perimeter Magic Square". There is a plan to continue these engagements with once a month online meetings and 3-4 day workshop in summer.

A workshop for upper primary teachers in the Attappadi region of Mannarkkad Taluk was organized. 19 teachers and 3 Block Resource personnel participated in the workshop that consisted of 3 sessions: (1) Pigeon Hole Principle and the variety of contexts where it is applicable (2) A session on the day-to-day challenges that teachers have to face and on the need for self-care and "knowing oneself" (3) A hands-on activity of constructing a fraction wall and ways of using it in the class. Monthly online meetings with this group of teachers and an in-person Math Circle session is planned.

IIT Palakkad co-organized a 3-day workshop in collaboration with IMSc, Chennai and HBCSE, Mumbai to familiarize the state government teachers with the Vigyan Prathibha Learning Units. Vigyan Prathibha is a DAE program that aims to improve science education at the school level, primarily in government schools. The workshop was attended by around 50 teachers and 4 Block Resource Personnel. The sessions were anchored by external experts. On going support through school visits and monthly follow-up meetings are also organized.

IIT Palakkad and LUCA launched a summer puzzle series Lock-n-Key in May 2024. The series ran from May 1 to May 30 and the puzzles were made available in both English and Malayalam. There were 3 puzzles released on each day (1 easy, 1 medium, 1 hard) and students can submit answers on the same day by 9 pm. There were 4 interactive sessions (with live puzzle solving and discussion on previous puzzles). Check out the puzzles here.

This was a panel discussion organized with the aim of understanding how IIT Palakkad as an institute could build better partnerships with agencies that work in school education. The panel consisted of invited experts Dr. Jahnavi Phalke, Dr. N. Shaji, Sh. C Riswan, Dr. B Shaji and Dr. P Shaiju.

As the founding director of Science Gallery, Bengaluru, Dr. Jahnavi Phalke offered her experience of enabling a proactive public engagement in science, through designing research festivals, interdisciplinary exhibitions, and other public events bringing together the sciences, engineering, art and culture. Dr. N. Shaji and Sh. C Riswan shared their rich experience of science popularization at the grassroots level through their pioneering roles in the Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad (KSSP) and as editors of the popular science magazine LUCA. Dr. B Shaji and Dr. P Shaiju talked about their hands-on involvement in the programs of Samagra Shishsha Keralam (SSK) that span the entire Kerala state. Drawing inspiration and ideas from these luminaries, some potential areas were identified where IIT Palakkad can contribute to these partner agencies.

This was a workshop for school teachers with the objective of enabling them to make connections across various apparently disparate mathematical ideas and be apprised of the mathematics underlying everyday activities including art. The sessions focussed on visual representations of abstract ideas from higher secondary school syllabus. There was also a demonstration of elements of mathematics present in music which is also encountered in secondary and senior secondary mathematics textbooks.

The workshop was attended by 42 teachers from schools in Palakkad and 2 block resource personnel. The sessions were anchored by external experts. The music and mathematics session brought together a team of musicians and a mathematics expert.

The palakkad math circle students were taken to the one-day attachment program at the Centre for Science in Society (C-SiS). C-SiS is a center for the popularization of science and technology located on the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) campus.

The centre aims to create scientific awareness among students through play models, science labs, math lab and science parks where students can see the theories that they have encountered in the textbooks come alive.

A one-day workshop for high school mathematics teachers from Palakkad was organized on 14 December 2019. This workshop provided an opportunity to interact with prominent educators with diverse experience in mathematics education. It served as a precursor to Palakkad Math Circle and provided a platform to plan and organize a pilot run of math circles in few selected schools during Jan-Feb 2020.

A series of articles on the history and pedagogy of Maths is being published in the e-zine for teachers - LUCA @ School. The articles delve into the historical development of key concepts in mathematics like negative numbers, data visualisations, trigonometry, etc. and discuss the implications of this development to pedagogy. The article series also looks at potential concern areas for teachers as they deal with these in the curriculum.