If you enjoyed maths at school – or since leaving school – you will probably already use mathematical language comfortably with your children and find that they understand basic concepts such as the counting numbers and simple fractions at a young age. Unfortunately, a large section of the population found school maths so confusing – or even distressing – that they avoid anything remotely mathematical. Fear of maths can put parents off the whole idea of home education. Yet parents who know little about history or geography don’t find this off-putting, as they usually expect to learn from books as they go along. Parents who are unmusical, or don’t know any foreign languages have few worries about educating their children themselves. But fear of maths is somehow over-riding, and becomes almost irrational.
If this describes you, your fear may be passed on to your children even if they are in school. If they see you looking in horror at their maths homework, they’re unlikely to be inspired and confident! So whether or not you’re considering home education for your children, it’s worth re-thinking your whole attitude to maths.
What is maths anyway? It’s the underlying structure of the world, which we see in patterns, shapes, quantities and intelligent guesses. Why do we need it? We need to understand the concepts of numbers and quantities when we bake cakes, or decorate a room. We see patterns in art and music. Businesses need to make intelligent guesses (or ‘estimates’) of how much something is going to cost, how many people need their products, how fast it is going to sell. We need to keep track of our bank accounts, and ensure we do not spend more than our income.
Unfortunately the modern system of arithmetic does not stress on learning mathematics by pattern recognition and hence it becomes uninteresting and painful to children.
So How would you like if suddenly all your math worries are taken care of and your children not only adore math but they sleep, eat and breathe math? Wouldn’t it be amazing if such a system exists and they be able to master and learn it easily?
The solution to all the worries and boredom lies in ancient Indian scriptures called Vedas. Well you must be wondering What on earth has ancient Indian scriptures got to do with your high school kid struggling with math? A lot if you read carefully the next few lines.
The ancient Indian scriptures called Vedas are a storehouse of knowledge of every field including mathematics and science. Through this System of Mathematics every mathematical problem no matter how difficult can be solved faster and easily without much effort. The system is called High Speed Vedic Mathematics and this is the secret to the distinguished edge of the Indians in Mathematics over the centuries. It is a worldwide fact that the zero was invented by the Indians and the numbers we use today form a part of the Hindu System of Numbers.
These ancient techniques are absolutely applicable in the modern day curricula and they increase the skills,performance and speed of a student by over 1500%.
Sounds Unbelievable, Read on.
Here’s a quick example of a Vedic Math Technique:
62 x 68 = ?
It is quite simple since both digits start from 6, so you take 6 and multiply with the next number 7 which gives you= 42 , the first part of the answer and take 2 and multiply by 8 which gives you 16,so the final answer is 4216.
How much time did that take?
No wonder this is the World’s Fastest Mental Math System!
These methods were lost over the span of time and were rediscovered by the Sankaracharya Swami Bharti Krishna in 1918. He wrote a book where his ideas were published which created a revolution in mathematics. He then toured the USA universities and colleges in 1958 teaching his system. Some computer programming language which were founded around the same time, give their credit to this very system. Even NASA uses these methods in Artificial Intelligence and Microsoft’s engineers are taught a compulsory course in this very subject.
A big part of this method is learning the recognition of patterns in numbers , letters or pictures. Once the student has learnt efficiently how to find symmetry and pattern of numbers or objects, learning mathematics becomes fun and simple! It arouses interest in mathematics and the children suddenly want to discover more and more of this beautiful method cause it gives them speed and accuracy which they desire. Vedic Maths is a zero-error technique and this take care of the very root of the phobia of mathematics.
You may want to home school your child into Vedic Mathematics and get him the edge which he deserves. Any teenager can learn Vedic Mathematics and enhance his numerical abilities. It helps the students not only inside the class room or traditional academics, but it also enhances the IQ by enhancing the analytical skills and thought processes. This happens cause the system is very coherent and intuitive and uses both sides of the brain thereby giving the student the winning edge.
It is very satisfying to see young children’s eyes brighten when they see and learn the Vedic system and techniques.
Thomas, a 16 year old at a school, was able to apply these techniques in his school when he learnt the Vertically and Crosswise Formula of multiplying two and three digit numbers. He was able to solve 100 problems in less than 10 minutes. This is simply incredible.