A logical consequence
Background The pursuit of taking mathematics Beyond Abacus has resulted in my developing various key aspects to elaborate the theoretical framework. No theory, however, is complete until it is tried, tested, through practice. Moreover, the Mission 100,000 quality maths teachers too has necessitated to be more inclusive as to who can be counted as the maths teachers to be part of this Mission ?
A logical consequence, therefore, is to start another series of posts that will be more of a practice session than theoretical orientation. Beginning not later than Gudhi Padwa, 13th April, I plan to post articles, worksheets, videos, audios, interviews etc to popularise application of mathematics in day to day life, business, science, technology, agriculture and other fields of human endeavour.
The series, yet to be named, will specially address the young parents and people wishing to be maths teachers at any level. It will strive to alleviate feelings of fear from maths by connecting them with core math concepts, operations through understanding their usage, applications in day to day life, businesses, science, technology, agriculture and other fields of human endeavour. The central idea is to make every reader feel - I know Maths.
It will also be my earnest attempt to help young parents, wanting to be teachers, to understand core principles of psychology, pedagogy, to better understand their kids as well as students. Topics like how to deal with FGL (First Generation of Learners) students in whose entire family no one has had formal education. These students have very typical problems - like no one to help in studies, no one understands the importance of the kids homework and other submission commitments, there is hardly any appreciation of significant improvement or over appreciation of little use of common sense. Most FGL students succumb to unrealistic expectations.
You are welcome to suggest topics to be included. You are also welcome to be guest authors to write, speak, make short videos to elaborate on a point you feel important.
May I request you to keep an eye on this upcoming series that will be posted 4 pm everyday and share, use, the articles at will.
See you there too…….4 pm everyday beginning latest by Gudhi Padwa 2021
Dr Prakash Moghe
Beyond Abacus
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After reading today's blog I also realise that being good at numerical calculation is good. But over expectations of parents and peer pressure also become a cause for tension of continuously being focused on getting high score instead of actually developing sense of mathematics. And this problem is seen even with highly educated parents also. Why should we have such a narrow criteria of being good at mathematics is only scoring good in the subject. I want to give a simple example of daily life. Elderly woman who could not be privileged with formal schooling, but in their drawing of rangoli, we can see their knowledge of geometry, shapes, joining of lines, for cooking, making a dough again ratio and promotion of flour and water showed their sense of mathematics, though not on report card. We, the parents, teachers need to realise the importance of developing mathematics sense instead of nagging behind the children to get high score at various levels of mathematics summative assessments.
ReplyDeleteVery good observations Arti, you understood the crux of the post very nicely and also expressed it vividly
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