Tag: Punjab and Rajasthan

“Close your eyes and think… is there any time of your day that mathematics is not around you?” The children shift in their seats, their impatient eyes dart behind their shut eyelids as they attempt to conjure up math images. Thus begin two months of an unprecedented assignment for Neha Sharma, class teacher of 5A […]

Siddharth cannot subtract 13 from 21 because this entails borrowing. Keerti can do only simple division, so 59 divided by 7 is a struggle since she hasn’t understood the concept of a remainder. Harish’s climb is steeper: he cannot identify one-digit numbers, something he should have been able to do in pre-school. All three are […]