Experience · Outreach

Math Circles

Taking mathematics outside the LUMS classroom — to government schools, remote districts of Gilgit-Baltistan, and my own home village — through LUMS Math Circles, a program that trains teachers and runs hands-on sessions for school students across Pakistan.

1,200+
Teachers trained
200+
Students taught directly
5
Districts & villages reached
2
Provinces — Punjab & GB
The Work

Initiatives

Education Fellows Training — Gilgit-Baltistan

Oct 15 – Nov 12, 2024
📍 Skardu, Kharmang, Ghanche & Diamer, Gilgit-Baltistan

A one-month program, in partnership with the Gilgit-Baltistan government and Agha Khan University, training newly hired education fellows across the region in "Gamifying Math Teaching" — an approach to make mathematics engaging and fun for students. 1,200 fellows were trained across all 10 districts of Gilgit-Baltistan; I personally travelled to and taught in 4 of them.

1,200
Teachers trained
10
Districts (GB-wide)
4
Districts visited personally
🎲Gamified exercises — turning math problems into participatory games
🖥️Interactive tools — visual aids and digital resources for complex topics
🌍Practical applications — real-world, scenario-based instruction
☀️When training venues lost electricity, local communities stepped in with solar power so sessions could continue
Skardu — with Dr. Waqas Ali AzharKharmang — with Dr. Waqas Ali AzharGhanche — with Dr. Imran AnwarDiamer — with Dr. Adnan Khan

Syedanwala Summer Camp

Summer 2024
📍 Syedanwala Higher Secondary School, District Kasur

A one-month summer program at Syedanwala Higher Secondary School, serving students in grades 6–8 with hands-on problem-solving instruction alongside teacher training for the school's own staff.

GB Summer Fiesta BootCamp

2023 · 10 days
📍 Ghanche District, Gilgit-Baltistan

The Gilgit-Baltistan government's "Summer Fiesta" — a ten-day camp redefining schools as centers of learning and enjoyment over the summer, combining creative learning, extracurriculars, health awareness, field trips, sports, entrepreneurship training, IT bootcamps, and robotics. It brought together the private sector, NGOs, banks, IT institutions, LUMS, NUST, philanthropists, and civil society. LUMS deployed 45 people in 9 teams of 5 — one team per district — each team pairing a leader with four instructors across math circles, machine learning, design thinking, renewable energy, and computer learning.

📍Assigned to Ghanche district as Math Circle instructor, two weeks
👥~200 students reached (about 100 per week)
⭕Taught concepts through games — including enlarging circles to introduce the idea of infinity
🪐Ran the "Jumping Julia" activity as a hands-on favorite

Math Circle in My Home Village

November 7, 2022
📍 Chak 678 GB Khair Shah, Tehsil Pirmahal, District Toba Tek Singh

I became the first PhD student at LUMS to set up a Math Circle in his own village — running two sessions in one day at the village's two government schools (Government Primary School for Boys and Government Middle School for Girls). Dr. Waqas Ali Azhar of the LUMS Math Department later wrote about the initiative in a blog post titled "A candle that lights another loses nothing," calling it "the beginning of a new journey of LUMS Math Circles to inspire young instructors to promote Mathematics at the grassroot level."

Volunteer, LUMS Math Circles

Ongoing · Bi-weekly
📍 LUMS, Lahore

Beyond leading my own sessions, I volunteer with LUMS Math Circles' own bi-weekly events at the Math Department — the organization whose mission every initiative above builds on.

Visit LUMS Math Circles →
Elsewhere in Experience

More of My Teaching Work

Math Circles is one part of a broader teaching practice — see my work as a course instructor and teaching fellow at LUMS as well.