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and the subject the substantially.”
toughest. This math According to
phobia compels Shah, Countingwell
learners to rote learn is on a mission to
without understanding enable students
and learning gaps go around the world to
widely unidentified. improve their math
Therefore, it’s skills – foundational,
important to teach problem solving and
children maths through real-life application
experiential methods – by providing
such as puzzles and individualised math
CHARU SRIVASATAVA
games so that children Principal, Siddharth International CHARLES CLARENCE lessons based on
Principal
can understand its Public School, Hisar Dr MPS World School, Agra their specific abilities
application in real life. and needs. Under its
The most important student-centric pedagogy and curriculum, problem-
contribution of the Countingwell programme is the solving capabilities of learners are first assessed to
phenomenal improvement of our students ability to identify math learning gaps. Based on this assessment,
understand and comprehend math problems,” says a customised learning programme is designed for
Charu Srivasatava, principal-director of Siddharth each child, focusing on bridging learning gaps before
International Public School, Hisar. moving forward to new concepts.
Charles Clarence, principal of Dr MPS World “The USP of Countingwell programmes is our
School, Agra, concurs: “Maths teaching-learning in pedagogy that is directly linked with learning
schools needs radical overhaul. As the Countingwell outcomes and problem solving skills, while
report highlights poor comprehension and encouraging participative learning. With growth-
understanding of maths concepts leads to students mindset focused content that doesn’t penalise
losing interest in the subject. We need to shift mistakes, but at the same time corrects and reinforces
from rote learning and formulae memorisation to concepts, we are ensuring that we nurture a generation
practical teaching of maths. In our school, teachers of self-learners. Through a carefully selected mix of
integrate and apply math to everyday life situations,” short videos, an interactive Socratic learning method
says Clarence, who adds that the Countingwell and a large repository of practice questions, we are
blended programme has helped “develop students’ able to encourage, inspire and enthuse children and
comprehension skills and improved their grades above all, retain their interest in maths,” says Shah.
Countingwell’s interventions
enhanced comprehension skills
PERFORMANCE BY SKILLS of children from 28 to 48 percent;
Student cleared Student cleared after previous knowledge from 64 to 84
without intervention Countingwell intervention percent; calculation skills from 56

100% to 71 percent and modelling skills
87.2% from 39 to 58 percent. Moreover
23.7%
80% 63.5% 14.7% 70.8% they improved the overall math
performance of class VI children from
% of Students 60% 56.1% 19.3% 58.4% 19.7% 47.5% 62 to 85 percent; class VII children
from 54 to 72 percent and class VIII
children from 55 to 75 percent.
39.1%
40%
27.8%
“The Countingwell app – which
can be downloaded in Android
20%
or IoS mobile phones – is a
powerful tool for blended learning
0% programmes, empowering schools to
Knowledge Calculation Modelling Comprehension conduct formative assessments and
determining learning interventions

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