Joy of Maths: Two-step method teaches through experience

What comes to your mind when someone says the number 75? “Students not being able to visualise numbers is what’s missing from Maths education, that’s what is holding us back”, says Geeta Mahashabde, Director, Navnirmiti Learning Foundation, who has been working to universalise Math education. Ms. Mahashabde says that this method where children solve the problem in “things-language” -- the step 1 -- which helps builds their confidence and then translate their understanding into alphanumerics. She then goes a step ahead and attaches one block of one colour with five blocks of another colour, to show that one plus five also equals six. “This is where every child thinks for himself”, says Ms. Mahashabde.