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Mathematics and Life 16 Improving school mathematics 1

 Improving school mathematics 1


Across the world, acquiring a certain level of proficiency in the  3R’s is an integral part of imparting education. Reading, writing and Arithmetic. In India, today, there are over 20 crore (200 million) students who are at the school level of education and who have to study mathematics. So it is essential to look at key dimensions of school mathematics.


What is it to know mathematics ? In most cases, the unwritten law is that even if students are able to do some addition, subtraction, multiplication and division they are considered to be good at maths and all are happy. All are also happy if year after year, the Board examination results are good. 


However, as a future conscious citizens, teachers, educators, it our responsibility to define what does it mean to know maths as we want the students to be active users of technology, do good in business, agriculture, take informed decisions. All this is not possible in the modern technology driven society until we agree upon a very broad based definition of mathematics which makes it process based, helps the learner open her brain to see maths in the environment, helps him to see what he is learning as mathematics is something very interesting, important and relevant even today.


At Beyond Abacus, the Project under which all these write ups are shaping up, we believe that Mathematics is the science of recognising, understanding, appreciating, creating and using patterns in day to day life, business, sciences, work life, technology …..


This broad based definition makes forming mathematics teaching strategies much in line with children's interest making the teaching - learning process based and relate it to life too.


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  1. UnknownJanuary 31, 2021 at 10:06 AM

    Relevant points about mathematics teaching.👌

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    1. Dr Prakash MogheJanuary 31, 2021 at 4:16 PM

      Thanks for taking interest. Lets interact further drpnmoghe@gmail.com

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