The EDge Editorial Team May 2020 In the wake of the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, the education system faces a new set of challenges and opportunities. While school closures in India has pushed out 250 million children from brick-and-mortar classrooms, the clamour for digital learning is intensifying. Educational Technology (EdTech) is witnessing a spike in both…
A student’s mathematical knowledge is built on a basic understanding of numbers and basic arithmetic operations. We refer to these skills, which should be acquired by class 5, as ‘Foundational Numeracy’ skills. Several studies have shown that students who perform poorly on these skills at the end of kindergarten and class 1 are likely to…
The article appeared in the May-June 2020, Policy and Perspectives of Teacher Plus Magazine
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