I turned my child into a math wizz and now you can too
The following is from an article titled “I turned my child into a math whizz and now you can too” published in the Scottish Mail on Sunday by Kirsten Johnson.
WHEN Dr Rashmi Mantri discovered her nine-year-old son was struggling with simple sums, she decided to go back to basics.
Using an ancient technique she learned while growing up in India, she tutored Dhruv after school – with the help of an abacus.
Within weeks he had been transformed into a maths whizz and his classmates’ parents began to get in touch to ask for help.
Now Dr Mantri, a former university lecturer, is taking her abacus tutoring to the masses after becoming disillusioned by the Scottish primary school curriculum. Hundreds of children attend her weekly Supermaths sessions in Glasgow’s West End and South Side, while her first Edinburgh class was launched last week.
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