Subjects in Primary, Middle and High School / ငယ်စဉ်က သင်ခဲ့ရသော ဘာသာများ
Arithmetic / ဂဏန်း သင်္ချာ
Algebra / အက္ခရာ သင်္ချာ
Geometry / ဂဲဩ မေတြီ
Trigonometry / ထရစ်ဂို နိုမေတြီ
စနစ်ဟာင်း / Early examination
သင်္ချာတစ် (Arithmetic)
သင်္ချာနှစ် (Algebra, Geometry)
အပိုသင်္ချာ (Additional Maths)
စနစ်သစ် / Later examination
* High School Maths (Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry)
Dr. Min Oo / former classmate
Min Oo (Seated Leftmost)
သူငယ်ချင်း ကိုမင်းဦ: က Calculus နှင့် အဆင့်မြင့်သင်္ချာ တို့်ကို High School တက်စဉ် ကိုယ်ပိုင်လေ့လာသည်။ တက္ကသိုလ်ဝင်တန်းတွင် Second in Burma ရရှိပါသည်။
Concrete Maths (Selections from Continuous Maths and Discrete Maths)
Computational Maths
Engineering Maths
Dr. Chit Swe (Saya Chit)
Founder of UCC
Established Computer Science / Education and Applications in Burma
My Mentor ဆရာ၏ projects များတွင် ပါဝင် ထမ်းဆောင်ခဲ့ရသည်။ Maths ဆရာများနှင့် သိကျွမ်းခဲ့ပါသည်။
ဆရာ့အကြောင်း posts များ publish လုပ်ထားပါသည်။
ဆရာကြီးများ နှင့် ဝါရင့်ဆရာများ
U Aung Hla (coded Burmese songs / spouse Daw May Than and son Ko Mya Than are talented musicians)
U Kar (Minister in the Caretaker government)
U Ba Toke (Phwa Bet Taw for Rangoon University and first RU Students Strike in 1920)
U Net (Mandalay; father of Sayama Daw Khin Mar Mar; grandpa of Wunna Ko Ko)
Dr. Chit Swe (Founder of UCC / Computer Systems, Application and Education)
Dr. Ba Kyi (Mandalay)
Dr. Tin Maung (succeeded Dr. Chit Swe as Director of UCC; first Rector of ICST; son of U Kar)
U Hein Tin (DSA)
U Tin Hlaing – Education
U Sein Min – Eco / RASU
U Khin Zaw (My saya in I.Sc.(A))
Choudhury (My saya in I.Sc.(A))
U Ko Lay – Workers
U Ko Lay – Mote Seik
U Hla Myint (1) – Eco; father of Shein Soe Myint
U Hla Myint (2) – RASU / RIT
Dr. Thein Myint (Analysis)
Dr. Khin Maung Win (father of Maung Yit and Junior Win)
Dr. Saw Tin (Engineering Mathematics)
Dr. Khin Maung Swe (Maung Thin Char)
Daw Myint Myint Khaing (daughter of Arzani Mahn Ba Khaing)
Daw Myint Myint – RASU / RIT
Dr. Kyaw Nyunt – Numerical Methods
Dr. Kyaw Thein (succeeded Dr. Tin Maung at ICST)
Dr. Pyke Tin (literally means “left on a net”; succeeded Dr. Kyaw Thein at ICST)
U Aung Sein (Record holder for First Class Honors; brother of Dr. Maung Di)
U Soe Nyunt (Graph Theory)
Daw Khin Ma Ma (My sayama in I.Sc.(A))
U Soe Min (Astronomy)
U Maung Maung Tin (Administrator)
U Sein Win (Astronomy)
U Sein Win (Son of Arzani U Ba Win; later Dr.)
U Khin Maung Latt
U Sein Shan – RIT
U Shwe Hlaing – RIT
U Tun Shein – RIT
Dr. Thaung Nyunt – RIT
Daw Khin Nwe Yi – RIT
Daw Khin Lay Myint – RIT
U Ko Gyi – RIT
Daw Myint Nyan – RIT
Daw Khine Nyan – RIT
Daw Myint Myint – RIT
Dr. Saw Tin – RIT
U Aung – RIT
U Thein Han – RIT
Maths Curriculum Committee
U Ba Shan (Brother of Pagan U Ba Gyan who survived the shooting on July 19, 1947)
U Myint Than
U Myint Thein (later Dr.)
U Kyaw Soe (later Dr.)
U Yan Aung
Some sayas from Burma Education Research Bureau)
Notes
Padamyar Winhtein (U Win Thein) stood first in Third and Final Year Maths.
He had blogged about some of his sayas and his expertise.
The following is his notes about U Aung Sein.
U Aung Sein နဲ့ပတ်သက်လို့ မှတ်တမ်းတင်စရာရှိနေတယ်သူ့အဖေက ကန့်ဘလူ ဘူတာအဝင် Arabic School ရဲ့ ကျောင်းအုပ် မော်လဝီ ဆရာကြီးဒေါက်တာမောင်ဒီ နဲ့ ဖအေတူ အမေကွဲ ညီ အစ်ကို
ရန်ကုန်တက္ကသိုလ် နဲ့မန္တလေးတက္ကသိုလ် သင်္ချာ ဂုဏ်ထူးတန်းကို ၁၉၆၆ ခုနှစ် အထိ ဖွင့်ခဲ့တယ်ရန်ကုန်သင်္ချာ ဂုဏ်ထူးတန် နောက်ဆုံးနှစ် ကျောင်းသားတွေ ထဲမှာ ဒေါက်တာစိန်ဝင်းနဲ့ လှည်းတန်းက ကျူ ရှင် ဆရာ ဦးသာ တို့ပါဝင်တယ်ဦးအောင်စိန် ကို မှတ်တမ်းတင်ရမဲ့ အချက်ကအဲဒီ ကာလက ဖွင့်ခဲ့သမျှသင်္ချာ ဂုဏ်ထူးတန်းမှာ First Class first Division ရခဲ့တဲ့ ဦးအောင်စိန် အမှတ် တွေက recorded ဖြစ်ခဲ့တယ်စံချိန် ချိုးနိုင်သူ မပေါ် ခဲ့သေးဘူး
The following is his notes about Dr. Sein Win
Sein Win received his Bachelor of Science (Hons) Degree in Mathematics from University of Rangoon in 1966 . He received a diploma in Mathematics in 1974, and a Doctorate of Science (Doctor rerum naturalium) from Hamburg University in Germany. He served as a tutor at Rangoon University up to his scholarship to Hamburg University and lecturer at University of Colombo in Sri Lanka from 1980 to 1981 and at Nairobi University in Kenya from 1982 to 1984. Now he returned back home.
Aung Myaing (ChE72) wrote :
Maths or Math?
Let me share my understanding.
Both math and maths are short for the word mathematics. Math is the preferred term in the United States and Canada. Maths is the preferred term in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and other English-speaking places like Myanmar.
Ko Ko Kyi (EC72) replied :
Aung Myaing Those of us from older generation, who were taught “British English” prefer the English way of spelling or terms. Younger generation who attend or attended American International Schools are used to the American spelling or terms. Canada is a special case. It is a hybrid system, which accepts both British English and American English. This is because, it is influenced by its big neighbor or neighbour, the USA and at the same time wants to keep its British heritage as a former British colony and present member of the Commonwealth. When my daughter was enrolled at a Canadian junior high school many years ago, I asked the teacher what was the preferred way of spelling. She said both British English and American English were accepted.
Aung Myaing added :
Koko Kyi ! Thanks! Glad to know that you’re the reader of Ko Hla Min’s posts. Ko Hla Min has been my icon since my days at RIT as a student.
Ko Ko Kyi replied :
Aung Myaing Yes, I do read Ko Hla Min’s posts. In fact, I had to ask for his advice when we set up the Sunday Dhamma school for Myanmar children at our monastery in Toronto. He has a lot of experience on the children’s Dhamma school in California.
For some time, we were not aware that some of them are celebrated on different days (depending on the country and religious order).
For example, the Orthodox Church celebrate Christmas and Easter according to the old calendars (e.g. Julian).
The Mahayana celebrate the events (Birth, Enlightenment, Maha Parinibbana) on dates different from those of Theravada Buddhists.
We later learn about
Kabyar (Poem) Nay
Myat Saya (Teacher) Nay
Secretary Day
Friend Day
…
Some wonder if there are Grandfather’s Day, Grandmother’s Day and Grandparent’s Day.
Not all events are holidays.
Even among holidays, there are Public Holidays, State Holidays, and Bank Holidays.
There may be good reasons (social, commercial) for having the designated days.
For us, every day is Thanksgiving (time to repay to our parents and mentors for their unbounded love and care).
Adeline Hpyu Hpyu Aung wrote :
Yes Saya. We should be thanking God, Parents and teachers everyday, without them we will not be who we are.
KMZ wrote :
My left brain at times over-analyzed many of these days. Many of these holidays are the work of “Holiday Industrial Complex”.
As Ma Adelyne Hpyu Hpyu Aung posted, some of these days like Mothers’ Day/Fathers’ Day should be 365 days a year, not necessarily just the designated day a year.
Believe it nor not there also is a ‘National Splurge Day’ which is June 18th. US Congress eventually passed a law to stop creating those days.
It included the following (with name changes and/or structural changes over the years).
Rangoon College
Judson College
BOC College
Convocation Hall
Administrative Offices
Housing for sayas
Hostels for male and female students
RUSU (Rangoon University Students’ Union)
Sanatorium (Tekkatho Hospital)
RU Gymnasium
Tekkatho Dhammayone
RUBC (Rangoon University Boat Club)
RU Swimming Pool
Soccer fields
Tennis courts
Recreation Center (Chess, Basketball, Table Tennis, Badminton, Fine Arts …)
Libraries
Canteens
…
The Estate was managed by the Estate Engineer and his team.
U Nyo, a philanthropist, was a major donor for RUSU, RU Gymnasium and RUBC. He was conferred an Honorary Doctorate by RU.
RUSU has an important role in the History of Burma. It was the training ground for students, who later shone as regional and national leaders. Sadly, the building was demolished on 8th July 1962.
Sir Arthur Eggar, Law Professor, pledged/donated a third of his salary for RUBC. Monetary support from Dr. U Nyo and other patrons accelerated the growth of RUBC into a reputable rowing club in Burma (and beyond).
In the early days, it was convenient and not so costly to attend RU even for those who do not have scholarships and stipends. In addition to have a reasonably good quality of education (as shown by the high success rate of Burmese scholars), there was ample time and opportunity to participate and excel in sports, hobbies (SPARK, aero-modeling, so-ka-yay-tee, public speaking, debates, …)
RU produced doctors, engineers, scientists, social scientists … who were outstanding for their extra-curricular activities.
It is sad to see students forgoing their dreams because of the need to make “long” commutes and without the choice of “affordable” housing (hostel, …) . It is sad to learn that many students cannot afford the time to participate and excel in sports and hobbies.
A reasonably good “environment / program ” might nurture “Jack of all trades and master of some”.
Khin Thein Yi and I are appreciative of the great amount of time and devotion spent by ALL the organizers, volunteers and spouses towards this Re-Union effort. Thank you much y’all!
Your success was AWESOME! Imagine a crowd of 300+ Burmese ex-RIT alumni and spouses in this foreign country, and most of them apparently successful in their own way. Makes me feel proud of the whole bunch; this mixed with melancholia to think of the loss of much needed brainpower, guts and grits that our motherland did not utilize.
Heart touching also was the sight of former students paying their respects to the Sayagyis of old; this revered old custom of ours is so so different from the new culture that we have immersed ourselves in, for the last (twenty-eight for me) years.
Many sayagyis were there, but in spirit they also represented all our other teachers from kindergarten to graduation. We reminisced also about Sayas Ba Hli, Sein Hlaing, Ba Than, Saw Pru, Simon, Chit (Blacksmith), Hla Myint, professors sent thru the Colomo Plan, the Russian professors, some of them I remember by face but have forgotten the names (shame on me!) and many others. Julie Han was sobbing with joy at the end of this ceremony; my throat was all choked up as I wiped the tears from my eyes. THANK YOU ALL MY SAYAS AND SAYAMAS.
Wow! I suddenly realized that it was several decades since I graduated. It is strange to perceive that many of the RIT sayas graduated after us.
In my first year Engineering, Saya Allen Htay and Saya San Hla Aung freshly graduated taught “Geometrical & Mechanical Drawing” class for less than a year before they went to study in the U.S.A.
Before we came, we looked at the roster, it seems that there were so few of my contemporaries attending, and that we would feel at a loss. Not so. All the RITians behaved like one big family. Faces and names that we had forgotten for decades were refreshed. Some of the guys were hardly recognizable. Suddenly, we are much younger again. I greeted some of the guys with a “Hey fella”, like it was only yesterday when we were attending RIT.
Quick Impressions:
Loo Yap May screaming when she saw Khin Thein Yi.
Some of these ladies are very un-Burmese-like, with their kisses and huggings and screamings. Ha! Ha!
Saya Num Pon actually blushing, when I mentioned about the girl that was chasing him, when we went on our summer training in B.O.C. Chauk.
Benny Tan’s collection of memorabilia from RIT days, including Spott’s “Machine Design” and slide rule. I think Saya Ko Ko Gyi introduced that text to us.
Did not get a chance to say “Hi” to Ko Tin Htoon (Arch 60). Hi! Ko Tin Htoon.
Old friend Saya Say Teong (Tin Maung) visiting us from Burma. Must be a big shot there.
Many faces I remember, but cannot place their names.
Forcible body removal of photographers, so that the official photographer can get a good shot with his wide angle camera.
That Daniel [Tint Lwin] from Singapore sings good. Yup! Daniel, you organize for over 500 people, we will be there. Daniel, say “Hi” to Nellie.
Jeffrey Kamdar handing out friendship pens.
Aw Taik Moh (C1954) still working and looking chipper.
Learnt that Mya Thwin’s wife Suzie is ex-Methodist. My alma mater.
Teary-eyed Reggie Wu.
We think of Amy Thwin (Tin Tin Ohn), Dolly Thwin (Ni Ni Thwin), sisters (both ex-RIT) who have both passed away.
Anthony recounts how six Chem. Es including Saya Chwan, Willie, Moy and two others pooled enough money to immigrate one to the U.S., and pulling the next guy in when financially able. Admirable.
And so on, and so on, and so on, and so on (Remember English Tutor Saya Pereira??). Physics – Saya Bharadwaja
One gripe. Time went by too fast. One dinner (what did we eat, I forgot) and one picnic was not sufficient to see or greet some of the friends long forgotten. We had several sub-parties and get-togethers – buffet at Lee’s, lunch at Benny Tan’s beautiful abode (congrats Benny and wife – you are the American dream come true), tea at Saya Allen Htay and Muriel’s house at the tip of Silicon Valley), lunch at Julie Han’s niece’s, dinner with a few Chem.Es graced by Saya Khin Aung Kyi, brunch at George Chen’s, San ‘Frisco tour with Saya Khin Aung Kyi. We still could not get enough of it.
Like my friend (my class-mate, my co-worker, my sibling rival) Dr. Tin Win says, “It sure is hard to come back to work”. Aw shucks! We gotta get back to reality and normal life.
Goodnight, and thanks again y’all.
Eddie (M64) & Khin Thein Yi (ChE65)
Editor’s notes: The fifteen Teoh siblings are named alphabetically from Albert (the eldest) to Oscar (the youngest). U Cecil (C63) and U Eddie (M64) are RIT alumni. They rank 3rd and 5th among the siblings.
Most children are not afraid of failing. They ignore their failures and eventually learn to do new things ride a bike, swim and speak several languages
Most adults are afraid of failing. They do not try to move outside their comfort zone.
We read about “King Bruce and the Spider“. The moral of the story was “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.”
Thomas Edison succeeded in developing the incandescent bulb after 1000+ tries and failures. He said that he learned something new from the failed experiments.
NASA had failures. Three astronauts training for Apollo 1 Mission — Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chafee — died due to the deadly fire The NASA space program rebounded from the failure and eventually landed men on the moon, NASA developed an accelerated program to beat USSR in the race to the moon.
Around Christmas of 1968, three astronauts (Frank Borman, James Lovell and Bill Anders) circled the moon and sent back lovely pictures. Apollo 8 was an important step for a successful mission to set men on the moon.
I wrote a poem on “Apollo 8”. It was not published. My mentor Reverend F. Ludvig (aka Ashin Ananda) said, “Your poem is long. Most people do not have the time and leisure to read poems, especially long ones.” I could have lost heart and confidence.
In July 1969, Apollo 11 landed in Tranquility Bay on the moon. I wrote a poem “Men on the Moon“. Ashin Ananda gave my poem to Mr. Hall, Information Officer at USIS. He forwarded it to NASA. He put me on the subscription list of USIS. I received “Alin Yaung Magazine”, Newsletters and Translations. My poem was also published in the Guardian Newspaper.
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