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MATHSLEADER- Mathematics and Mindfulness: From Classroom to Workplace the Drive towards Financial Literacy is based on an Increased Awareness of Teaching, Learning, and, Understanding the ‘Use of Mathematics’ in Everyday Life. 

21st century is the age of Financial Inclusion, Technological Convergence in the form of Artificial Intelligence and Nanorobotics leading to cutting-edge Scientific Research and Development, for a collective growth towards a better Sustainable Future. Therefore, what lies at the core of this technological diversity that is radically simplifying human lives is an ‘organic understanding’ of our existence, our behavioural motives and our new ethics and consciousness.

 

All these involves complex mathematical functions, and, every time some sensory input data is gathered and collected/stored in our brain, some complex algorithms are taking place similar to that in a computer which we are simply not aware of. We are mutually interdependent processes in a quantum system that is continually changing and evolving both at the micro-and-macro levels. In such an environment, learning, thinking, and, a cognitive reflection of that which we call contemplative understanding, is the key to our evolution of consciousness.

 

This is an organic process that has its roots at the fundamental level of educational inception which begins at the school. This has been clearly mentioned thousands of years back in the Taittiriya Upanishad in the Siksha Valli stage of human development. It talks about the transmission of pure knowledge or concepts from the teacher to a competent student who is then endowed with ‘Jnana Shakti’ or the ‘Power of Knowledge’ and ‘Kriya Shakti’ or the ‘Power of Action’ to act upon that knowledge which he has received or to implement it based on his own observation, logical awareness and intuition.

 

The ability to comprehend the ‘marvellous structure of reality’ as Einstein suggested, lies purely in the knowledge of Mathematics because only for it we can define the physical laws of the universe. Therefore, convergence towards a completely new understanding of mathematics at the school level is primarily what we are trying to create an awareness about through a series of workshops and seminars across India. 
    
At the MathsLeader Conference 2017-20 series in collaboration with EEF India and AT, UK, we are introducing Teaching Practices based on Application of 21st Century Tools and Techniques which are to be used by the modern Teacher in the Classroom to Explain the Basic Concepts of Mathematics, from the use of Numbers, Ratios and Proportions, Calculating Prices, Percentages, Measuring, Weighing Volumes etc. – the predominant use of the Brain in Everyday Life Making Things Simpler for the Individual.

 

As we try to build a Digital India, which is of course, based on technological connectivity thereby closing the gap between the ‘Knower’ (Subject) and the ‘Known’ (Object), we find a beautiful underlying symmetry of interconnectedness which is the background of ‘unity in diversity’, and, the system is so fine-tuned based on mutual interdependence, that we can’t help saying that what goes inside our brain is obeying the same physical principles and laws that goes outside in the world, and, this is pure knowledge and understanding of the reality we live in based on Mathematical Concepts.  

We have to look at New Ways of Teaching Mathematics as part of the Policy of Financial Literacy and Inclusivity because, to give a Better Livelihood and Wellbeing to an individual means making him more Resourceful by giving him the Right Knowledge and Skills for Application in daily practices to make life more meaningful and successful. Financial Inclusion as a policy to deliver financial/banking facilities to all people in an equitable, transparent manner at an affordable cost by providing financial literacy skills, involves teaching, learning simplifying the use of mathematics.

 

This process has started and we have an Immediacy of Action in our hands and this is the Main Objective of the MathsLeader Seminars and Workshops, to Increase the Awareness of Teaching, Learning and Understanding of Mathematics as a Fundamental Skill for the Livelihood of Billions of People. Financial Literacy is all about Freedom and as George Cantor the great German Mathematician, and, founder of Set Theory said ‘the Essence of Mathematics lies in its Freedom’, we are perhaps, now, advancing towards an age of Higher Mindfulness or Awareness, Financial Equality and Wellbeing. 
 

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