Vedic Maths - the best of maths!

How many of us are actually aware of Vedic Maths and its benefits? Is it same as the maths we generally study and a fancy name has been given only to grab attention or its something completely different? The thoughts kept churning in my mind after I saw one of the TEDxGateway talks held in December by Franklin Templeton Investments.

The Vedic Maths is a super-fast method of doing calculations - just like we just to do in Mental Maths when we were kids! It provides simplified, short methods which gives a very systematic method to us for calculating long operations in few seconds without the use of pen & paper or calculators! How many of us can perform 998*997 mentally - leave apart doing that in few seconds! Well, vedic maths teaches us exactly this. Here's how:

The Vedic Maths dates back to early 1900s and was consists of major 16 sutras. These sutras help us to solve any type of calculations with ease. There are 13 sub-sutras as well so as to further simplify the calculations by stream-lining towards a particular topic! These sutras and sub-sutras were discerned by Jagadguru Shankaracharya Shri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja, a great philosopher and The Father of Vedic Maths.

However, this great field of mathematics has not got all the attention it should have achieved. Very few people were aware of it and even lesser actually practiced it, but not anymore. Gaurav Tekriwal is one of those few who used it and started popularising it for the benfit of others. He is the founder President of The Vedic Maths Forum India - an organisation which teaches people the concepts of Vedic Maths and their use in our daily lives. 

The forum mentions the following benefits of Vedic Maths:

• High Speed Vedic Mathematics is 10-15 times faster than normal Maths.
• Better and Much Improved Academic Performance in school and Instant Results.
• Sharpens your mind, increases mental agility and intelligence.
• A Complete System comprising all the benefits of Mental Maths .
• Develops Left & Right Sides of the brains by increasing visualization and concentration abilities.
• Vedic Mathematics cultivates an interest for numbers and eliminates the math-phobiapresent in the students.
• Vedic Maths is easy to understand, easy to apply and easy to remember.
• Increases your speed and accuracy . Become a Mental Calculator yourself.
• Improves memory and boosts self confidence.

Franklin Templeton Investments partnered the TEDxGateway Mumbai in December 2012. (video)

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