{"id":479,"date":"2007-05-19T04:25:09","date_gmt":"2007-05-19T04:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=479"},"modified":"2014-06-19T10:39:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T02:39:14","slug":"vedic-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/vedic-mathematics-479","title":{"rendered":"Vedic mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vedicmaths.org\/\">Vedic Mathematics<\/a> is interesting. According to Vedicmath.org:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>... All mathematics is based on sixteen Sutras, or word-formulae. For example, &rsquo;Vertically and Crosswise' is one of these Sutras. These formulae describe the way the mind naturally works and are therefore a great help in directing the student to the appropriate method of solution.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wikipedia (article no longer available) adds:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Labelling the mathematics he presented as &lsquo;Vedic&rsquo; has provoked great controversy amongst Indian mathematicians who question both the Vedic origin of the mathematics, and whether the sutras can fulfill the claim of encompassing all mathematics.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Essentially, Vedic Mathematics is a system of mental arithmetic. It is similar in nature to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trachtenberg_system\">Trachtenberg System<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What I found interesting was the method of finding recurring decimals, where we learn how to express:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>1\/19 = 0.052631578947368421052631578947368...<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicalmethods.com\/\">Another site<\/a> offers to teach you how to divide 89786756543423980876 by 132346765434356574635 in less than 30 seconds. But do I want to be able to do that? Is it worth the mental effort to memorise the techniques?<\/p>\n<p>Do these techniques have a place in our calculator- and computer-based mathematics classes? Actually, while I am enthusiastic about reducing the mental clutter of numeric and algebraic techniques via the use of technology, I do think it is worth pursuing mental arithmetic. Algebra is much easier if you know the number laws behind it.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, Vedic maths provides you with some great party tricks...<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/vedic-mathematics-479#comments\" id=\"comms\">2 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vedic mathematics is an Indian system of mental arithmetic. But do we need such techniques when we have calculators?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}