Akshaya Vidhya Skill Development Academy

27/01/2016

If your conversation is interrupted by someone for time being now you cannot recall what you were conversing. You will ask what I was talking about. Its a common problem with all of us. Immediately force yourself to recollect the missing link and do not allow this habit to grow. After just few successful recollections this problem will disappear.

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27/10/2015

lots more tricks on vedic maths

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24/08/2015

join abacus see development in your child

24/08/2015

join abacus see development in your child

28/07/2015

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21/07/2015

short Vowels are marked with a symbol called "breve"...

20/07/2015

Facts for Kids #

Enjoy a wide range of fun math facts for kids. Check out some cool trivia related to the things that make mathematics such an interesting subject.

Learn about amazing numbers that are so big it’s hard to even understand them. Find facts about the golden ratio, pi, geometry, prime numbers and much more. Read on and have fun learning about math!


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Mathematics is important in many different types of jobs, including engineering, business, science, medicine and more.

It is believed that Ancient Egyptians used complex mathematics such as algebra, arithmetic and geometry as far back as 3000 BC.

It wasn’t until the 16th century that most mathematical symbols were invented. Before this time math equations were written in words, making it very time consuming.

What comes after a million, billion and trillion? Why a quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion and nonillion of course.

Cutting a cake into 8 pieces is possible with just 3 slices, can you work out how?

An icosagon is a shape with 20 sides.

A three dimensional parallelogram is called a parallelepiped.

Trigonometry is the study of the relationship between the angles of triangles and their sides.

The smallest ten prime numbers are: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29.

The name of the popular search engine ‘Google’ came from a misspelling of the word ‘googol’, which is a very, very large number (the number one followed by one hundred zeros to be exact).

A ‘googolplex’ is the number 1 followed by a googol zeros, this number is so big that it can’t be written because there isn’t enough room in the universe to fit it in! It would also take a length of time far greater than the age of the universe just to write the numbers.

The number Pi (the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle) can’t be expressed as a fraction, this means it is an irrational number. When written as a decimal it never repeats and never ends.

Here is Pi written to 50 decimal places: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510

If two quantities have a ratio of approximately 1.618, they are said to be in the golden ratio. This ratio has been used throughout history to design aesthetically pleasing art works such as the Parthenon. It also appears in paintings, music, the design of books, and even in nature.

Amazing numbers and cool math triviaMath Facts for Kids
Enjoy a wide range of fun math facts for kids. Check out some cool trivia related to the things that make mathematics such an interesting subject.

Learn about amazing numbers that are so big it’s hard to even understand them. Find facts about the golden ratio, pi, geometry, prime numbers and much more. Read on and have fun learning about math!


Sponsored Links

Mathematics is important in many different types of jobs, including engineering, business, science, medicine and more.

It is believed that Ancient Egyptians used complex mathematics such as algebra, arithmetic and geometry as far back as 3000 BC.

It wasn’t until the 16th century that most mathematical symbols were invented. Before this time math equations were written in words, making it very time consuming.

What comes after a million, billion and trillion? Why a quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion and nonillion of course.

Cutting a cake into 8 pieces is possible with just 3 slices, can you work out how?

An icosagon is a shape with 20 sides.

A three dimensional parallelogram is called a parallelepiped.

Trigonometry is the study of the relationship between the angles of triangles and their sides.

The smallest ten prime numbers are: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29.

The name of the popular search engine ‘Google’ came from a misspelling of the word ‘googol’, which is a very, very large number (the number one followed by one hundred zeros to be exact).

A ‘googolplex’ is the number 1 followed by a googol zeros, this number is so big that it can’t be written because there isn’t enough room in the universe to fit it in! It would also take a length of time far greater than the age of the universe just to write the numbers.

The number Pi (the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle) can’t be expressed as a fraction, this means it is an irrational number. When written as a decimal it never repeats and never ends.

Here is Pi written to 50 decimal places: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510

If two quantities have a ratio of approximately 1.618, they are said to be in the golden ratio. This ratio has been used throughout history to design aesthetically pleasing art works such as the Parthenon. It also appears in paintings, music, the design of books, and even in nature.

19/07/2015

benifits of good

I think that attitude and motivation have the greatest impact on a child’s success in school. This conclusion is supported by a lot of research literature and anecdotes from teachers. Both are affected by what the child genuinely believes about his capabilities to learn. As a child learns to master academic challenges, self-confidence emerges and provides a drive to learn more because the child knows that achievement is possible. Learning cursive is an easy way for a child to discover important tactics for learning as well as the emotional benefit of being able to master a task.

I am assuming here that cursive is still taught the way I learned it over 50 years ago. First, the child is taught how to hold a pencil, a relaxed but firm grip where the pencil is held with more or less equal pressure from the thumb and the first two fingers. I see kids these days hold pencils in all sorts of scrunched-up, awkward and hard-to-control ways. Then they are shown how to engage the whole arm in writing movements, not just trying to control all movements with the fingers. I think this important because the motor cortex has such discrete control over fingers that the brain is constantly being confused by all the various options for drawing segments of a letter. Letting the arm participate reduces the cognitive load over finger control. Handwriting becomes easier to generate, less tiresome, and eventually more attractive. There may well be other effective mechanical approaches, but in any case, these have to be mastered first, otherwise the student may become frustrated.

Key principles of learning and memory are embedded in learning to hand write. First, the child learns just one letter at a time. The student is shown a cursive letter and asked to duplicate it. The feedback is immediate. The child sees in one eye fixation both the ideal and the child’s version. The child then tries again, and again sees immediately the comparison between the ideal and their current state of skill. With each attempt, the child learns without being told or scolded, how much improvement is occurring. Progress is all under the child’s control. The child knows it, and also knows that better results can occur with each thoughtful attempt. The child learns to pay more attention (which in itself is a crucial skill in this age of multi-tasking). The child starts to take ownership over the effort. This is the same thing that happens when children draw pictures. Here, they are drawing pictures of letters and they get to do it where they know what the standard of excellence is and they get to privately assess how well they are doing. Cursive is an art form. If you belief art is important, you just have to support cursive teaching.

Since, reproducing a single letter is rather easy, the child knows that success if obtainable. Positive feedback, instant and specific, comes from the very act itself.

Without realizing it, children learning cursive are also learning self-discipline. I can’t think of any school task more important than that.

As each letter is mastered, the child says “I can do this! I can even do this better!” Then it is just a matter of moving on to mastery of the next letter and eventually to the relatively easy task of joining letters. Maybe the best emotional boost of all is when children learn they have acquired this skill on their own. All the teacher did was show them how to hold and move a pencil and show them the objective. Nobody force-fed this new skill into their brain. They did it themselves.