Beyond Abacus

  Mathematics is the science of recognising, understanding, appreciating, creating and using patterns in day-to-day life, business, sciences, work life, and technology. Once we develop, teach, and treat math as the science of patterns, and give students a fair chance to arrive at answers at their own pace—where no answer is ridiculed, and where comparison of scores is minimized—we observe students becoming more willing to attempt problems on their own. Unequal comparisons, public shaming, and repeated reprimands for low math scores are among the most significant factors shaping negative attitudes in children. Often, due to reasons beyond their control, children encounter these pressures early in their learning journey, leading to math anxiety and even hatred for the subject. Developing a strong language–math interface also helps students understand problems better, reinforcing their confidence and ability to engage with math meaningfully. Incorporating everyday examples—counting, m...

  Mathematics is the science of recognising, understanding, appreciating, creating and using patterns in day-to-day life, business, sciences, work life, and technology. Once we develop, teach, and treat math as the science of patterns, and give students a fair chance to arrive at answers at their own pace—where no answer is ridiculed, and where comparison of scores is minimized—we observe students becoming more willing to attempt problems on their own. Unequal comparisons, public shaming, and repeated reprimands for low math scores are among the most significant factors shaping negative attitudes in children. Often, due to reasons beyond their control, children encounter these pressures early in their learning journey, leading to math anxiety and even hatred for the subject. Developing a strong language–math interface also helps students understand problems better, reinforcing their confidence and ability to engage with math meaningfully. Incorporating everyday examples—counting, m...

  Experiential Math: Shifting from Teaching to Learning Implications on Classroom Teaching Mathematics is the science of recognising, understanding, appreciating, creating and using patterns in day-to-day life, business, sciences, work life, and technology. Once we accept this broad-based perception of what it means to know mathematics, our methods of teaching and evaluation all change for the better. They become more student-friendly, inclusive, experiential, and experimental by nature. The focus of teaching, for example, would shift to empowering each student rather than only appreciating or encouraging those already good at the subject. The teacher would use technology effectively to study each child in greater detail, track progress, and create examples tailored to the student. Funwork would replace homework. For example, while introducing the concept of length, students may be asked to estimate the length of different items around them like a pencil, pen, mobile, table, or kit...

  Living Math in School: A Beyond Abacus™ Perspective Globally, mastering the fundamentals of reading, writing, and arithmetic is a core part of education. In India, there are currently over 200 million students in schools who need to learn mathematics. It is therefore crucial to examine important aspects of school mathematics. What does it mean to understand mathematics? Generally, if students can perform basic operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, they are deemed proficient in math, and everyone is satisfied, especially if board exam results are consistently good. However, as forward-thinking citizens, educators have a duty to define what it truly means to know mathematics. We aim for students to effectively use technology, excel in business and agriculture, and make informed choices. Achieving this in a technology-driven world requires embracing a broad definition of mathematics that is process-oriented. This helps students engage with mathematics ...

 

  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...