Whole numbers are rather easy to work with. Most children seem to have fun counting toys, tools a... more Whole numbers are rather easy to work with. Most children seem to have fun counting toys, tools and treats and playing with whole numbers. But this is not true in general, for fractions. The question is: Why? Most arithmetic operations with whole numbers may be clearly explained through visual displays. When children see toys, often they also see the numbers. When they add, subtract, multiply and divide their toys, they truly visualize these operations and that makes arithmetic operations with whole numbers understandable and often enjoyable. For many children this pleasant environment of learning ceases to exist when they learn arithmetic operations with fractions. While some very elementary concepts of fractions could be easily explained by simple geometry, most concepts of arithmetic operations with fractions are often clouded with complications in the eyes of children. In this article, we have attempted to clear some these clouds by introducing visual geometrical understanding o...
1. Caste system, a descent-based institutionalised inequality, has been practiced for thousands o... more 1. Caste system, a descent-based institutionalised inequality, has been practiced for thousands of years in parts of South Asia, such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Caste remains a cage for Dalit communities, spreading its tentacles wide and deep. Over the centuries caste has made its presence felt in the lives of people through religious privileges and prohibitions, descent-based differential socio-economic status and opportunities, power to make both social and personal decisions and violence against those who challenge the caste system. It exists in every sphere of life from pattern of housing, food and dining, rights over water, land and cattle, marriage, choice of occupation to modern-day institutions. In India, despite Constitutional provisions and legislations to safeguard the rights and lives of Dalits, caste has persisted and transformed itself into a myriad of new forms. It remains a challenge to the ideals of democracy-equality, justice and fraternit...
Whole numbers are rather easy to work with. Most children seem to have fun counting toys, tools a... more Whole numbers are rather easy to work with. Most children seem to have fun counting toys, tools and treats and playing with whole numbers. But this is not true in general, for fractions. The question is: Why? Most arithmetic operations with whole numbers may be clearly explained through visual displays. When children see toys, often they also see the numbers. When they add, subtract, multiply and divide their toys, they truly visualize these operations and that makes arithmetic operations with whole numbers understandable and often enjoyable. For many children this pleasant environment of learning ceases to exist when they learn arithmetic operations with fractions. While some very elementary concepts of fractions could be easily explained by simple geometry, most concepts of arithmetic operations with fractions are often clouded with complications in the eyes of children. In this article, we have attempted to clear some these clouds by introducing visual geometrical understanding o...
1. Caste system, a descent-based institutionalised inequality, has been practiced for thousands o... more 1. Caste system, a descent-based institutionalised inequality, has been practiced for thousands of years in parts of South Asia, such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Caste remains a cage for Dalit communities, spreading its tentacles wide and deep. Over the centuries caste has made its presence felt in the lives of people through religious privileges and prohibitions, descent-based differential socio-economic status and opportunities, power to make both social and personal decisions and violence against those who challenge the caste system. It exists in every sphere of life from pattern of housing, food and dining, rights over water, land and cattle, marriage, choice of occupation to modern-day institutions. In India, despite Constitutional provisions and legislations to safeguard the rights and lives of Dalits, caste has persisted and transformed itself into a myriad of new forms. It remains a challenge to the ideals of democracy-equality, justice and fraternit...
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