Celebrating 25 years of impact, Akshara Foundation, a Bangalore-based Public charitable trust committed to ensuring ‘Every Child in School and Learning Well,’ launched the 2024-25 Gram Panchayat Level Maths Contests Report that reveals interesting gender-based trends in performance across grades 4, 5, and 6.  The report unveiled on March 10 found girls consistently outperformed boys in the higher performance bands, …

Paarth Raj Kapoor, a 8-year old student of class IV from Apeejay School, Pitampura, after solving 13complex5-digit calculations within the set time, has earned a place in the ‘India Book of Records 2022’.  Much to the selectors’ amazement, he successfully completed the calculations in just 8 minutes and 20 seconds. He secured his place in the first round itself owing …

Tamil Nadu Government is partnering with Australian e-learning platform Matific to encourage an innovative way of learning mathematics for Kindergarten to Class 6 students. The deal marks the company’s first-ever pilot run in the Indian market. Over 1.5 million students across Tamil Nadu will now have access to the Matific platform, featuring thousands of gamified activities and worksheets covering skills aligned to the curriculum. Minister for School Education, Thiru K A …

One 100 students from 34 schools in India and abroad participated in the 6th edition of ‘Infinity 2020 – The Ultimate Math Championship’ –  the annual Inter-School Mathematics Competition – hosted by Aditya Birla World Academy in association with BITS Pilani to bring out their mathematical best. The event was held on 10th-11th January 2020 in Mumbai. The winners of ‘Mathematician …