The Need for Popularization

• Benefits of Maths
• Inadequacies in School Education
• Widespread Innumeracy
• Increasing Math Anxiety
• Divergence 
• Image Problem

...Not to teach but to change attitudes...

School and Maths

• Does not achieve deeper learning 

• Does not focus on the axiomatic nature of the compositional nature 

• Where math anxiety begins 

• Exams test memory, not math skills

• Does not cater to students who want more

Means of Popularization

• Books 
• Math circles 
• Other media
• Exhibitions etc

Maths-culture

• Facts
• Way of thinking 
• History 
• Recent Developments 

Books

• Create a link between the mathematician and the public 
• Move ahead of problem-solving
• Books for wider audience 

Math anxiety 

Causes

• Innumeracy
• Image of mathematician and perception of mathematics 
• Memorisation 
• Cowardice 
• Gender-based discrimination

Innumeracy

• Inability to deal with or grasp big numbers

• Tendency to personalise

• Failure to grasp small probability

• Coincidence 

Consequences 

• Social
• Individual
• Ethics 
• Errors in decision making

• Math anxiety 
• Misconceptions 

Causes

Ethnomathematics

• Examine how different cultures interpret and apply mathematical principles.

New Ways to Look at Maths

Exploring creative and interactive methods to engage learners and make math more accessible. 

• As  a tool
• As  of way of thinking 
• Pleasure 

• Impersonality of mathematics

New Maths

Explore alternative approaches to mathematical concepts, formulas, and structures.

Consider the possibility of entirely new mathematical systems that challenge our current understanding.