The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : The Vedic route makes mathematics easy

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Monday, Aug 08, 2005

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The Vedic route makes mathematics easy

K. Manikandan

The exhibition provided students an insight into interesting means to arrive at solutions for complicated formulae

MAGIC OF MATH: A student of RDF Vivekananda Vidyalaya explaining a concept through Vedic mathematics at an exhibition at the school on Friday. — Photo: K.Manikandan

TAMBARAM: For scores of school students, the number game had never been so easy as they discovered at an exhibition on Vedic mathematics at the Ramkumar Devi Fomra Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Chromepet.

The exhibition last week gave an insight into the interesting means to arrive at solutions for complicated mathematical formulae. Be it multiplication or division of several digit numbers, for which answers cannot be arrived at even with calculators, students wrote the answers on the blackboards in a matter of seconds.

Students from private and government schools in Chromepet area were simply overwhelmed by the effortless ease with which their counterparts from Vivekananda Vidyalaya arrived at answers for complicated sums. Students from the host school were at their fiery best while narrating the manner in which the problems had to be tackled. They also made a power point presentation on Vedic mathematics.

School authorities said a segment on Vedic mathematics always formed part of exhibitions conducted by the school in the past. This was the first time that they conducted an exhibition exclusively on Vedic mathematics. The aim was to create awareness among students, parents and the general public about the scope and potential that Vedic mathematics held.

Dispelling `maths phobia'

According to the teachers, attending regular sessions of Vedic mathematics dispelled the `maths phobia' among the students. Once practiced regularly, students could perform even complicated calculations mentally and come up with the solutions in just a few seconds. As Vedic mathematics did not form part of the school syllabi, it was taught essentially to those students interested in learning it. Students were divided into batches and they attended the special sessions twice a week after school hours.

Students said practising Vedic mathematics helped them improve their power to grasp the subjects. Sivaramakrishnan, student of the Twelfth standard, said he was immensely benefited after studying Vedic mathematics as it made it easier for him to arrive at answers for complex problems. This, he said, would help him when he faced competitive examinations.

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