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Mathematics and Life 107 Working together is success

 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 require any  long, formal process. Even if you write an article, essay, poem, research paper in which you have expressed your own thoughts becomes here copyright just by getting it published in your name. Trade mark, on the other hand is given after due confirmation by the competent authorities of the government of India. The competitors and rivals contest your claim of the name, they also contest the original idea. After due discussions arguments the Trade mark is assigned and it is valid for the next 10 years from the date of application. After 10 years which can be renewed. With Shree Ganeshji blessings, your good wishes, the trademark has been registered effective 21st October 2020.


Out of the 3  milestones of success mentioned by Henry Ford namely, coming together, keeping together and working together we have already achieved the first two milestones.


Knowing each other, the coming together has already happened. On different occasions we have been interacting, knowing each other. May be as part of working, or through reading of one or more of the past 106 blog posts you have been reading, watching, commenting upon can be construed as we have been keeping together. 


Working together can be done in more than one possible way. To explore the scope of working together, let us first understand what is the market or the target audience for  Beyond Abacus® ? As mathematics is a compulsory subject till standard 10th, we need to work very hard in the K - 10 segment for two reasons 

  1. These are the foundation years where children develop lifetime love or hate for maths.

  2. The fact that studying Maths is compulsory makes it necessary that we make the maths content, its teaching very interesting, captivating and above all, accessible for all types of students. 

This complex task of addressing the everyday, repeated, maths learning needs of over 200 million (20 Cr) students till standard 10th alone, has many interrelated components and I am sure we need almost an educational movement to look into KPI Key Performance Indicators like research to make the entire value chain more creative, flexible, user friendly, producing good content, effective content delivery system, efficient content evaluation system, methods to develop new perspective among existing teachers, develop ways to create new teachers for maths skills……


I invite you to explore collaboration possibilities in these emerging areas. You could be a regular maths teacher, a math tutor, someone wanting to be a maths teacher, a parent wanting to teach maths to her kids, wanting to start a small tutoring business,  owner of a school chain, owner of an institute, may be Academic Director, Principal, Head of the Maths department, teacher trainer, researchers, YouTube channel owner, software developer ….. 

Beginning this Wednesday, 5th May onward, every Wednesday a zoom meeting will be hosted by me to discuss, detail, this concept further. Meeting link / ID will be shared soon. 

In these meetings, I will be sharing various ways to develop research perspectives to develop creative, unique content, teaching strategies and creative ways to develop interest in the subject. Also, we will discuss how doing this all can be a source of regular income for you.

At other times you may schedule a discussion by messaging 8085906062.


Advantages of association Besides personal development as a maths teacher, being more famous at the international, national, regional, local levels as a leader in the Education field, you will be making decent income along with contributing to building the nation's Knowledge Infrastructure. You will be directly contributing to bringing quality education at affordable prices right at the students' doors.


More in the posts to come. Looking at the expanding work, posts may be less frequent and by guest authors too.


Dr Prakash Moghe

Project  Beyond Abacus®

Moghe Education Consultancy

8085906062, 7489447223

drpnmoghe@gmail.com

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