ಸಂಚಿಕೆ ೨ : ಮಕ್ಕಳಲ್ಲಿ ಹೇಗೆ ವ್ಯವಹಾರ ಜ್ಞಾನವನ್ನು ಬೆಳೆಸಬಹುದು - ಪ್ರೀತಿ ಎ. ಟಿ. ರವರ ಅನುಭವ (Episode 2 : How I Inculcated Business Sense In My Students, by Preethi)

This is the story of Preethi, who works as a teacher at Kone Sagar Higher Primary School, Molakalmuru Taluk, Chitradurga district. She started as a teacher of Mathematics in 2007 and has been teaching for 14 years. She loves the subject and she ascribes it to the way her teachers taught her. Most of the students today dislike mathematics and she was under the wrong impression that most students would understand Mathematics easily.

She realised that if a student has not understood addition, he/she is unlikely to understand multiplication. And she also realised there are students who understand a given problem but do not have the sense to conduct business with a vegetable vendor or with a shopkeeper. She was not happy with the results of her teaching and then she got help from the Ganitha Kalika Andolana (GKA) Math kit. 

The teachers were given a five-day training on how to use the kit. The kit is useful in teaching the students 17 concepts such as division, fractions decimals, etc. Since the kit is not fragile, children can touch and drop them without causing any harm to the equipment. Slowly, the students started enjoying mathematics classes. In 2019 her students of 5th grade showed great interest in learning the concept of addition through the abacus. Using the money blocks given with the kit, she was able to inculcate the business sense which the students lacked earlier. 

Within two years of introducing the kit, the students have displayed improvement in understanding basic concepts and in the development of common business knowledge.

For the students of Grades 4, 5 and 6, there is a panchayat level competition which shows the efficiency of using the kit. Her students have been winning prizes regularly in the contest. It also helps them in taking tests such as Adarsha and Morarjee tests under the Navodaya scheme.

Preethi has been felicitated at The Taluk level for using the GKA kit efficiently. She is grateful to the 'Sarvashikshana' scheme and 'Ganitha Kalika Aandolana' for introducing the kit to her.