Author: Report PTI
Publication : The Free Press Journal
Date: June 12, 2003
In a move to popularise Vedic maths,
the World Academy of Vedic Mathematics, a private promotional body would
train professionals to inculcate the traditional concept among students,
reports PTI.
"Of late many people having little
initiation in Vedic maths, were imparting wrong concepts of the traditional
discipline creating misgivings among the people," academy Vice President
R. P. Jain said.
"We want to make people aware about
what vedic maths is all about how it helps increase speed, accuracy and
analytical power and give one the choice to perform the same calculation
in different methods in split-minute time," Jain said.
"Vedic maths rooted in our ancient
Vedic resources helps to solve complicated and long-winded mathematical
equations in a simplified way and is based on 16 simple principles," he
said.
According to former Indian envoy
to UK and one of the proponents of the discipline, Dr I. M. Singhvi, vedic
maths was traditionally taught through sutras, a thread of knowledge, a
theorem, or a "repository of truth" formulated as a proposition to couch
a rule or principle.
The training programme is expected
to commence sometime this year.
The academy also held workshops
for general public at several places including Pune, Hyderabad and now
in Kolkata.
Talking about the three-day workshop,
held in the city from June9, a Vedic maths expert Dr Avijit Das said interest
about Vedic maths has been on the rise among both the initiated and uninitiated.
"Altogether 197 persons representing
different age groups and strata of society attended the workshops," he
said.
Das came down heavily on "detractors'
of Vedic maths and said a lobby was at work against propagation of Vedic
science thus "depriving out students of the rich tapestry of our mathematics
which gave the world the numerals now in universal use." Commenting
on recent controversies about inclusion of Vedic science in the curricula
of institutions, Das said, this would make people more aware about the
real benefit of Vedic maths which helps in holistic development of the
brain making children more inventive of their methods.
