Vedic Maths Introductory Course

The Idler Academy, 81 Westbourne Park Road
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Admission
£25 (reduced rates for whole course)
Location

The Idler Academy, 81 Westbourne Park Road

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Westbourne Park 0.27 miles

Learn Maths in a way you have never learnt before!
Fun, easy, fascinating and profound!

This course is for all those interested in improving their mathematical ability, exercising their mental faculties or simply for those wishing to learn lightening fast and easy to learn magical methods. All you will need is an open mind and some facility with the times tables! Each session will be accompanied with hand-out notes and practice for the week.

Course Details
1. Introduction – Be Happy, The Numbers Are Your Friends
What is Vedic Mathematics and where does it come from? Open mindedness. Simple introductory examples. Is it Maths or magic? Multiplying using All from 9 and the last from 10. Using unity to simplify problems. How to get lost and how to get found.

2. Vertically and Crosswise
General multiplication – not long but fast! Multiplying numbers of any size in one line. Comparison of methods. The alliance of arithmetic and algebra and how each can support each other.

3. The Mighty Vinculum
Simplifying arithmetic problems and how to avoid big numbers. Further aspects of multiplying by All from 9 and the last from 10 and Vertically and Crosswise.

4. Making Light Of Tricky Divisions
Special cases of division using All from 9 and the last from 10 and Transpose and Adjust, numerical division and algebraic division, straight division.

5. Are You Square Or Smart?
You are smart! Now build your confidence by squaring numbers. Fast methods for squaring numbers – ending in 5, close to a base and the general case using a duplex.

6. Amazing Recurring Decimals
An introduction to a world of fascinating patterns. By one more than the one before for converting fractions with awkward-looking numbers. The reign of 2 and 5. How infinite is infinite?

7. Divisibility and Digital Roots
Is your credit card safe? Checking your sums, simple divisibility. Digital roots and patterns. Secure data transmission, how it works.

8. Using the Sutras In Geometry
Areas of parallelograms and triangles by simple mental arithmetic, Pythagoras – a one-line proof, Self-similarity and the Golden Mean

9. Use Your Nous
Solving problems intuitively. Pattern recognition. The psychology of mathematics and unity.

About Vedic Mathematics
Vedic Mathematics is a unique and wonderful system enabling you to achieve lightening fast results with ease and confidence. It’s fun, easy to do, intuitive and profound. Based on sixteen aphorisms or sutras together with a similar number of sub-sutras this sytem is suitable for all learners.
The methods and techniques are the pioneering work of Bharati Krishna Tirthaji (1894 – 1960), Sankarcarya of Puri, who discovered or reconstructed the mathematics from ancient Vedic texts. The characteristic of this system is a unified body of knowledge, using patterns of cognition, thereby reducing the burden and toil which students often experience during their studies.

About James Glover
James Glover has a long experience of teaching Vedic Mathematics in schools together with running public courses on the subject. Until recently he was deputy headmaster at St James Senior Boys’ School in London and previously was head of Mathematics there for twenty years. He has written three books on the subject, Vedic Mathematics For Schools 1, 2 and 3. James has run several public courses on Vedic Maths at such places as Imperial College and The School Of Economic Science. He has also given numerous lectures and workshops including a lecture tour of five major cities in India. During the 1990s James was involved with running teacher training courses for schools within the Education Renaissance Trust. His researches have been directed towards the philosophy and psychology underpinning mathematics together with developing the Vedic techniques to topics outside those covered in the original book.

He states, “From an early age all people become engaged with mathematics because number, beginning with One, is a natural part of the human pyche. I treat the nine numbers and the zero, from which all numbers come, as steadfast and dependable metaphysical friends. The beauty of Vedic Mathematics lies in it’s efficiency, flexibility and magical quality.”

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