Effect of teacher in maths
🤣
My guess is, maths permeates into all kinds of sciences that can sprout in a human brain.
Quite a few are unfortunate to ‘feel’ about themselves, as weak in maths, allergic to maths, not compatible with maths, etc.
It is ‘here’...that I noticed the ‘effect’ of ‘the’ teacher, which plays a significant role in bridging the ‘gap’ between such ill-fated kids/students & the fascinating game called ‘maths’ 🙏
Maths has been a ‘scoring’ subject for me🙏. Psychologically, I ought to be incompetent to advice those who are not ‘good friends’ of the fellow called maths 🙏
It so happened, a child girl ‘G’ was abandoned by a private tuition teacher in maths, and the full fee refunded to G’s mom😭. Two weeks to go for the annual exam of 3rd standard for G. Sure to fail in maths😥. The mom asked my sister to ‘somehow’ get the child to just_pass in maths, or else a whole Year goes waste! I volunteered to ‘try’.
I narrowed down to the ‘clinching’ chapter in maths, (again a ‘maths skill’ 😜, we may_say. Though this_skill of ‘narrowing down’ to the core of a problem helped me in solving legal issues 🙏).
In G’s case, identifying an improper fraction was a sure koschan/question 🙏. It adds 10 marks. This child manages about 25+ marks . Falls short of only 10 more marks(maximum).
I asked this girl to stand & listen to me (reason : I was personally+ privately not ‘comfortable’ that students ‘sit comfortably’ and listen, while teachers ‘stand’ all the 40 minutes to teach 😳. I can't ‘do’ anything about a Global phenomenon. But here it is one-to-one, and I am the ‘dictator’😜).
One more child(miss V) was watching the ‘fun’ ( she was in 2nd standard only).
I asked V to climb on my back when I knelt on the floor on my fours( knees and palms). I asked G to observe “a small girl sitting on me a huge fellow. Seems proper??” G nodded.
“Now see the Improper thing” said I.
V knelt down, and I ‘feigned’ like sitting on her back ( didn't want V to shout & distract😥). I explained to G “V is too small, and I am so big. She cannot bear my weight, isn't it?”( G understood easily)
Now, I connected the fresh visuals to numerals “big number sitting on a tiny number, is an improper fraction… “( i didn't have to”tell” about the ‘proper’ fraction. It is the residue once ‘improper’ test is done. Medical tests are automatically ‘negative’ if the improper_viruses are missing 😜).
A few more repeat-enactments… the visuals and terminology jargon ( numerator, denominator) became friends in G’s “brain” ( identifying bijness)
That girl G passed in maths🙏. Admitted into 4th. ( Sholay movie dialogue: basanti bhi khush, Chachi bhi khush🤣… mom & G both happy 😊. Zero tuition fees)
My love for maths bloomed due to my paternal uncle (next to my dad, among 5 younger brothers). He said “you might be having a problem with Rider number 5, chapter 4 of Hall & Stevens?”
( What's a Rider?.... Quote: In Euclidean geometry, a rider is a problem or theorem that "rides" on a primary theorem. It requires you to apply known axioms, definitions, and major theorems to prove a new geometric statement, calculate unknown values, or establish relationships between sides and angles)
We were walking on a busy road. My uncle quit school decades ago, and was only a matriculate! He still remembers the rider numbers? And can identify the ‘tough' for me? I am ‘lost’ into gaping at him 🙏. He added “Fool, try joining the points D to Q, and extend it to meet the line beyond it at point X. You will sight the “applicability” of the theorem.”( He didn't ‘bother' to verify the results of his hint/tip. Uncle trusted the quality of his blood in me via my grandpa 😜).
Back home, I narrated the incident to 2nd uncle who pooh poohed it 😥, saying “that’s nothing. This elder brother was exempted from doing maths homework, when he yelled the answer the moment that teacher wrote a “sum” on the blackboard. He solves maths_sum mentally 👍”. I dug up a little more stories about that maths_uncle. He created a ‘record’ by making the assistant busy to weigh ration items like rice 725 grams, sugar 285 grams, etc for buyers via ration card 😜 . The ‘normal' was, the billing clerk struggles to calculate manually, ration per head in a family card of 6 adults and 3 children 🙏😥. Full of fractions multiplication, in 1940 or so. Long queues, and the weighing guy waits infinitely for each ‘bill’. This uncle ‘heaps’ the cards with bills tucked in 😜. That's his skills at mental calculation of maths 🙏.
I had a teacher in maths who was an “M.A.” in maths, and taught to final year of M Sc in maths, but quit the college job, preferred to teach kids like me in 7th standard in a school, unmindful of ¼ salary of a school teacher, compared to a professor in college as HoD😥. ( His stories are awesome, and the s-p-e-e-d at which he calculated the affinity of students in maths stupified me 🙏. I still treat it as sheer luck that I was his favourite kid in my class 🙏. I realised only 4 decades later, that this genuis had a greater mastery in spirituality than maths🙏. His blessings were with mathematical precision unto me 😳. Ain't I unduly_fortunate👍??? While the bulk of us think that blessings are just a hollow gesture, placing palms on the head, nothing more than that, this Guru deploys a scientific phenomenon using the same’touch’, something that took me decades to learn & use 🙏🙏🙏).
Illogically yours( maths is logical),
psn (22 Oct 2026)
A joke🙏 ( please read + forget 😥):
At my work place, clerks who are promoted from peons, are a little ‘looked-down-upon’ (merit criteria is diluted in the selection process). The efficiency is unaffected, only the psychological treatment is a sadism in few🙏. I found a ‘way’ to remedy this😜.
Promotee clerks love me unconditionally 🙏(due to my manufacturing defect—I remain small like them👍).
I gave these few clerks a “trick” . They jot_down the interest in each term deposit account for the half year, without any ‘worksheet' 😜. The checking officer needs to only ‘look' at the working (figure work) and a tick in red-ink, at the jotted interest sheet. My trick OBVIATED the worksheet 😜. ‘componding effect ‘ of interest, at monthly and quarterly rests, needs manual labour in those days, when calculators were primitive and its use was unfamiliar (1975-76).
Checking guys were ‘forced’ to recreate the worksheet, arrive at the final numeral(cumulative-interest) listed in the sheet, and tick in red ink 😂. The frustrating part was, zero errors😭. Otherwise, they can give a ‘written order’ to produce the damn worksheet 😜.
( Imagine the inner joy of those clerks, who had to merely CopyPaste a formula without even understanding the merits in it!!! I too chant super_power_sanskrit mantras like those promoted peons, blissfully ignorant of the scientific quantum physics employed in those vibes_of_chants 🙏🙏🙏😥. Am I not a peon in spiritual bijness? 😜🙏)
Now, my moment-of-frustration :
I was toying with a f(x) calculator at a shop. The sales guy said to me : “ not for you. Only engineering students know to use it”
Me : “🙂”( but boiling inside “😡. I carry the genes of my ancestors who never even NEEDED algebra as an INTERFACE in their_way of Vedic_maths. And you are telling me that this f(x) is a live wire of 11000 volts which I shouldn't touch??? Damn!”)
