Beyond Abacus

  Background for gaming in maths Background Recently we saw how Artificial Intelligence relates to mathematics. Amidst all uncertainties, whether there would be board exams or not, and such conditions of pandemic, I want to answer the three questions below in order to help understand the need for the proposed project Gamification of mathematics  The questions are: 1. What is the rationale behind the proposed software ? 2. Who would be the target audience ? 3.  What is the value addition to the people I want to do it for? The rationale  I want to build an educational software for Beyond Abacus which would be a game based diagnosis for identifying strengths, gaps and weak areas of students’ mathematics. After that, through an Interactive Tutoring System, we would provide curated learning material specific to their learning needs.  There would be three types of questions in each subtopic/chapter of maths 1. Beginner level 2. Intermediate level 3. Advanced level In...

  Working together is success Background  Coming together is beginning Keeping together is progress Working together is success This is how Henry Ford defined the journey of an enterprise. A good news I am very happy to share that Beyond Abacus® has been recently registered as a Trademark. I considered this as a great achievement for someone like me with a long background and working as a school mathematics teacher. Although I have been employed on high profile jobs at the national and international levels, getting the idea on which I have been working since 2012 registered as a trademark did not occur to me. For those readers who are like me not much familiar with the way businesses work, I would like to explain that with this trade mark registration no one in India can use the name Beyond Abacus® in writing or print or pictures or videos or in any other way without my explicit written consent approval and permission. Trade mark is different from copyright. Copyright does not...

  AI in Mathematics Education an introduction Snehal Prabhune Thanks for introducing me to the august audience Dr Moghe. I am truly obliged. Continuing the series of the blog I would like to introduce concepts and terminologies of artificial intelligence, how these terminologies are shaping the world in which we are working and teaching. All subjects in general and mathematics in particular. Also, I will be talking about maths games enhancing the concept of Beyond Abacus. Primarily I have been into the education industry for the past 7-8 years.  I have worked intensely on various research opportunities in IIM Indore as an Academic Associate (IT) and as a data engineer in IIT Mumbai Incubator Iken solutions Mumbai. In IIM Indore, the focus is more on IT management project management, HR and agile methodologies so I worked closely with various faculties in this research domain. Also, during the tenure I co partnered with my Alma Mater  University of Petroleum and Energy Stu...