{"id":381,"date":"2009-03-10T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radhikand.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/10\/vedic-mathematics-for-dummies"},"modified":"2009-03-10T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T09:15:00","slug":"vedic-mathematics-for-dummies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/vedic-mathematics-for-dummies\/","title":{"rendered":"Vedic mathematics &#8230; for dummies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/radiance-coaching.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/vedic_graphic_multiplication1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border:0;margin-left:10px;margin-right:10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/radiance-coaching.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/vedic_graphic_multiplication1.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Vedic Mathematics is a system of Mathematics demonstrated in the ancient Indian texts called the Ved (or more popularly known as their Anglicised plural form, the Vedas). According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vedicmaths.org\/Home%20Page.asp\">website<\/a> of Vedic Mathematics Academy, \u201c .<em>.. all of mathematics is based on <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vedicmaths.org\/Free%20Resources\/Sutras\/Sutras.asp\"><em>sixteen Sutras<\/em><\/a><em>, or word-formulae.<\/em>\u201d (Sanskrit word \u2018sutra\u2019 means formula.) The website also goes on to describe the ease which the Vedic mathematics affords in doing difficult calculations. \u201c<em>In the Vedic system &#8216;difficult&#8217; problems or huge sums can often be solved immediately by the Vedic method. These striking and beautiful methods are just a part of a complete system of mathematics which is far more systematic than the modern &#8216;system&#8217;. Vedic Mathematics manifests the coherent and unified structure of mathematics and the methods are complementary, direct and easy. The simplicity of Vedic Mathematics means that calculations can be carried out mentally (though the methods can also be written down).<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vedicmaths.org\/Introduction\/Tutorial\/Tutorial.asp\">tutorials<\/a> on the website give examples of simple applications of the <em>sutras<\/em>, to give a feel for how the Vedic Maths system works. Some great examples of how the maths is made easy are also shown in few of the videos I found on YouTube. One video shows how one can use simple straight lines to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kZKOPKIHsrc\">multiply two big numbers<\/a> without knowing the multiplication tables. Another one shows how to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vtXbJRGeePw\">square big numbers<\/a> in your head using simple observation of number patterns. This video sort of implies that Taoist maths is derived from Vedic. The same person also demonstrates how to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WB3h0kU1SvE\">divide a long number<\/a>\u00a0by a small one quickly. There are many such videos however, I just wanted to share a few to show you the easiness of Vedic maths.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<p>I would like to end this blog entry by sharing some more information from the Vedic Mathematics Academy website. \u201c<em>Interest in the Vedic system is growing in education where mathematics teachers are looking for something better and finding the Vedic system is the answer. Research is being carried out in many areas including the effects of learning Vedic Maths on children; developing new, powerful but easy applications of the Vedic Sutras in geometry, calculus, computing etc. But the real beauty and effectiveness of Vedic Mathematics cannot be fully appreciated without actually practising the system. One can then see that it is perhaps the most refined and efficient mathematical system possible.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vedic Mathematics is a system of Mathematics demonstrated in the ancient Indian texts called the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,31,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-knowledge","category-blog","category-india","category-mathematics","has-comment-form"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}