Petition is given below. To sign online go to: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/teach-religiously-neutral-mathematics If you are convinced, do also SPREAD the word by forwarding this email to others. Anyone who has children or grandchildren in school (or had a bad math experience in school) qualifies as a potential signatory, as does anyone who…
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Yoga has been accused in the US of having religious roots, hence unfit to be taught in public schools, and there is court case going on to that effect. The obvious solution is to teach yoga only for its practical value in public schools. But mathematics too has exactly the…
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The subtitle is: How and why the church changed mathematics and Christianity across two religious wars. The book explains the relation of present-day school mathematics to the politico-religious beliefs of the church. The book is finally available on amazon.com as both paperback and ebook. BROWSE | BUY PAPERBACK| BUY E-BOOK…
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Of what use is mathematics in refugee camps? And its history and philosophy? Explaining this was a tough challenge. P.S. Here is a video summary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPWNL5YL2ds&list=UUTUs46gzu-mvO9hDIzzMfBg&index=1, and on the Campus in Camps website: http://www.campusincamps.ps/en/projects/c-k-raju/ https://www.facebook.com/CampusinCamps
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This new course is a world first. It was formulated after an intensive curriculum deelopment workshop already mentioned in an earlier blog. The West has systematically produced false history as propaganda to glorify itself and belittle others. This has further resulted in a bad philosophy of science and math. Typical…
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Dainik Bhaskar 9 July 2012 and Millennium Post 5 July 2012. Click above for text links.
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This time in English in the Millennium Post. (For the Hindi version in Dainik Bhaskar, see http://ckraju.net/blog/?p=76). The text version is a bit different. See it at http://www.millenniumpost.in/NewsContent.aspx?NID=2227.
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Here is the poster and the group photo Interestingly, this group included students from humanities, engineering, and also a mathematician and a physicist.
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Europeans made calculus difficult because they did not understand it. The infinite series of the Indian calculus did not fit their religious idea of mathematics as eternal truth, hence perfect. (Newton made a mistake in his physics just because he did not understand the calculus, and that physics has only recently been corrected.)…
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But why a year on the Christian calendar? That calendar embodies the European ignorance of elementary arithmetic and simple fractions (hence their persistent inability to determine Easter correctly until the Gregorian calendar reform of 1582 when they got the length of the year from Indian books). Click the image for the text version.…