The Vedic Maths India Mobile App is LIVE

It gives us immense pleasure to launch the Official Vedic Maths India App today for the Android Market on the Google Play Store. 

The Vedic Maths India App consists of 10 chapters conceptually divided and beautifully presented in a clean and simple user interface, this app makes Vedic Maths the way it should be – easy to understand and fun to solve.

 Here are some Features of the Vedic Maths India app:-

1) True Learning of Vedic Math Sutras

-- First see a high quality VIDEO for a particular Vedic Math topic
-- If you’re too busy or just want to revise, browse through the SLIDES.
-- Now do PRACTICE questions.
-- Finally appear for a TEST.

2) Compete with Yourself

-- The more you practice, the more badges you earn. The more badges you earn, the faster you become at math calculations.
-- See your progress.
-- Earn STARS and flaunt it among your friends.

3) Evaluate Yourself

-- See your REPORTS and earn badges to become a PRO.

Vedic Math app can be extremely useful in daily Math calculations and competitive exams like CAT, GMAT, GRE, SAT, PSAT, MCAT, etc.

This Mobile app has been developed in association with the young and dynamic team of Information Works.We would like to thank Deep Shah, Ashish Chowdhary, Harshal Bhakta and  Sumit Bachketi for their tiring efforts to build this app.

We soon expect this app to be launched for the Apple market as well.

Click here for the Vedic Maths India App

Certified Teachers Training Program on Vedic Maths at the Akanksha Foundation

The Vedic Maths Forum India, just completed the 5-Day Certified Teacher Training Program on Vedic Mathematics at the Akanksha Foundation in Mumbai. The teacher training program conducted empowered the teachers to take the drudgery out of Maths for over 4000 children across Mumbai and Pune through the system of Vedic Maths.

The Akanksha Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to provide children from low-income communities with a high-quality education, enabling them to maximize their potential and transform their lives. Akanksha works in the field of education, initiating school reform through The School Project, and providing a supplemental education through the Akanksha centers.

 

Currently, Akanksha reaches out to over 4000 children through two models: the after-school or centermodel and the school model. Akanksha has 40 centers and 13 schools in Mumbai and Pune.

We wish to thank all the math teachers who attended the program for 5-days to take out time out of their busy schedules.

Tata Sky DTH – Actve Vedic Maths : Demo Screenshots

 

 

For more info on the Service please visit http://www.tatasky.com/actve-vedic-maths-demo-low.html

Tata Sky launches ‘Actve Vedic Maths’ service

Tata Sky, India’s premier DTH service provider has joined hands with the Vedic Maths Forum India to launch a first of its kind training program in ‘Vedic Maths’ on its platform. The service is aimed at helping students and professionals appearing for competitive examinations within and outside the country, where speed is the key.

The new interactive service called ‘Actve Vedic Maths’ can be accessed by Tata Sky subscribers within the comfort of their homes, at any time of the day based on their convenience. It is expected

to help students   get   familiar with  Vedic  Maths  techniques   from an early age and  also  give  an   edge   to those appearing for competitive exams  by  helping them  solve objective type Mathematical questions  faster

The 60-day training program comprises video tutorials and practice sessions in Vedic Maths that enables one to solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and other Mathematical operations faster than conventional methods taught in schools and colleges, where these are taught in a fundamental way.

“Almost every exam now gives you more objective questions than you can solve within the given time frame. Given ample time, most of you may solve these papers perfectly. But given the 2 or 3-hours constraint, any technique that trains you to cut even 5 seconds in solving a problem, may give you a huge edge over your competitors.   Tata Sky’s Actve Vedic Maths will give you that competitive edge,” says Mr. Vikram Mehra, Chief Commercial Officer, Tata Sky.

Gaurav Tekriwal, the founder President of The Vedic Maths Forum India, is a renowned educator and motivator, imparting High Speed Vedic Maths skills globally over the last twelve years. Having learnt the Vedic Maths system from the current Shankaracharya of Puri and  Late Shakuntala Devi popularly known as "Human Computer”, Tekriwal imparted this admirable ancient knowledge to over 4 million students in India, South Africa, Oman, UAE, Romania, Ghana and Malaysia.

“I am delighted to be associated with Tata Sky to bring Actve Vedic Maths service to Indian homes through TV. Our focus has been on creating Mathematical interest among students and improving their overall academic performance by strengthening their basic fundamentals of Mathematics through platforms like Vedic Maths videos, blogs, online virtual classrooms and now for the first time this will be available on a TV service through Tata Sky,” Mr Tekriwal said on this occasion.

 

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Shakuntala Devi November 4, 1929 – April 21, 2013

Shakuntala Devi

The first I ever heard of Shakuntala Devi was a long time ago, when I stumbled across her book Figuring: The Joy of Numbers in the WH Smith's bookstore in Birmingham, W Mids. Dad had business in Brum, and we all came along for the day.

When I came along with the book, Mum was scared that it was some sort of black magic text. It wasn't - quite the opposite, in fact - and the book never left my bookshelves and relocated with me wherever I went.

Figuring: The Joy of Numbers became one of the most useful and helpful books I have ever had. It turned what could have become a fear of mathematics into a love of mathematics, and Figuring: The Joy of Numbers helped me to ace university and, later, work. Catalysed by the book and inspired by further experience, I learned to be familiar and comfortable with numbers, calculation, mental arithmetic and mathematics thanks to Shakuntala Devi's early influence in my life.

I just heard of her death today, and I share the great sadness all of India must feel. A great and beautiful mind is no more, and the world is diminshed for the passing of a woman whom I have long held with the highest esteem.

We will miss you Mathematical Genius Shakuntala Devi

Shakuntala Devi

Mathematical genius Shakuntala Devi, nicknamed as “human computer” for her ability to make complex mental calculations, died at a hospital in Bangalore on Sunday 21st April 2013 following respiratory problems.

She was one of my biggest inspirations and her encouraging words to me boosted my morale so much that I became interested in the field of Mathematics. Today India has lost a living legend and an icon. 

The Vedic Maths Forum India will miss her motherly figure her guidance and her love. May your soul rest in peace.

She found a place in the Guiness Book of World Record for her outstanding ability and wrote numerous books like Fun with Numbers, Astrology for You, Puzzles to Puzzle You, and Mathablity. She had the ability to tell the day of the week of any given date in the last century in a jiffy.

Coming from a humble family, Ms. Shakuntala Devi’s father was a circus performer who did trapeze, tightrope and cannonball shows.

It was while she was playing cards with her father at the tender age of three that he found his daughter’s calculation abilities. It turned out that she beat him not by sleight of hand, but by memorising the cards.

At the age of six, she demonstrated her calculation skills in her first major public performance at the University of Mysore and two years later, she again proved herself successful as a child prodigy at Annamalai University.

However, despite apprehensions in some quarters, Ms. Devi did not lose her calculating ability when she turned adult like other prodigies such as Truman Henry Safford.

In 1977, Ms. Devi extracted the 23rd root of a 201-digit number mentally.

On June 18, 1980 she demonstrated the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers 7,686,369,774,870 x 2,465,099,745,779 picked at random by the Computer Department of Imperial College, London. She answered the question in 28 seconds.

Video: The Magic of Vedic Math TEDYouth@New York

We are proud to be featuring the talk The Magic of Vedic Math TEDYouth@New York today. This video released 1 day ago and has over 30,000 views.

We would like to thank the entire TED Team for making this possible.We hope that you share the video so that more and more students benefit out of it! Thankyou :)

Activities at Vedic Maths Forum India

Friends,there are lot of activities and projects happening at our forum. April and May 2013 awaits the launch of few products. We have been working on these projects for over two to three years now, but they never got completed. Finally now is the time to get, set...and Go!

You would be hearing more from me soon when I finally and formally announce these projects.

Also some Vedic Maths workshops are coming up in Raniganj, West Bengal  in end April 2013 - look out for that! See you guys soon!

Prof.Sugata Mitra Winner of TED Prize 2013

with Prof.Sugata Mitra

It was a pleasure and an honor to meet and listen to Prof.Sugata Mitra who was in Kolkata recently where he delivered a talk 'The Future of Learning".

Prof.Mitra is the winner of the 2013 TED Prize.He has a wish to build a School in the Cloud, where children can explore and learn from one another.

His “Hole in the Wall” experiments have shown that, in the absence of supervision or formal teaching, children can teach themselves and each other, if they’re motivated by curiosity and peer interest. 

I would like to invite you all to  view his TED Talk.

                     

Help make Prof.Sugata Mitra’s wish a reality by downloading SOLE: How to Bring Self-Organized Learning Environments to Your Community.