He makes Maths simple for students
Gaurav Tekriwal
“Dimag ke bahar jaata hai” is a response Gaurav Tekriwal is used to hearing when he asks people what they feel about Math.
“Clearly, there’s a lot of love for Math!” quips the founder of The Vedic Math Forum India, before he shoots off some startling facts: Almost half of all adults in the UK have the math skills of a 11-year-old or lower, the pass rate for Math in South Africa’s National Senior Certificate Exam is only 46.3 per cent and that out of 74 countries, India ranks 73 — just above Kyrgyzstan — in a study on Math, Science and Reading scores.
The bespectacled Tekriwal is now on a mission to improve people’s Math skills — by teaching them how to use Vedic Math, a system that makes even complex mathematical computations easy. He demonstrated how multiplying even a three-digit number by 11 is a matter of minutes, and how the “base method” (thinking of a number in terms of 10, 100 or 1,000, whichever it is closest to) can reduce computation time considerably.
Tekriwal has taken the Vedic Math system to schools in India, South Africa, Oman, the UAE, Romania, Ghana and Malaysia.
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