Donot waste two things

 From childhood on words we have been told that never waste food. Food served on your plate should be completely consumed. Our respected farmers work very hard to bring crop to market. We should be grateful to them. Moreover there are many brothers who get two time food with lot of difficulty. 

Second thing we should not waste is pleasant moments of our life. We should enjoy those moments. We should be thankful to God for same. 

Friends keep smiling some time for yourself sometimes for others

Sukarma Thareja

Alumnus IITK

India

Higher Maths in School-Its Precious

 In India maths till class 10 is compulsory for all kids. In class 11 and 12th  students opting for PCM has to go for higher maths which include calculus and higher algebra containing  determinant and matrix etc. Parents know Math is Crucial to Kids’ Success — But Say It Needs an Update. 

Maths is seen as perhaps the most critical subject that children study and a key to their future life. But educators need to make their instruction more engaging and connected to students’ own lives. Many students told me in Class they got scared of higher maths as it became very abstract, and more over teaching of maths was so boring that students got disinterested. Maths is subject which need lot of practice which means lot of hard work. 

The survey, conducted by many research  Group,shows   the necessity of math skills in both promising career paths and the demands of everyday life. 

In India parents send children for maths tutoring from class 3 on wards. As parents  feel that their kids are not getting fully adequate preparation in school for subject like maths. A subject like maths, children will need to succeed later in life

Asked to choose among a list of academic subjects, 60 percent of the survey sample) named math as either “extremely important” or “very important,” more than for any other discipline. 

Parents strongly feel calculus should not be taught at class 11-12 level

In the main, complaints about math education related to its applicability to the world that students live in.  The subject was similarly described as less useful and engaging than it ideally would be, while sizable minorities of parents and teachers described our current approach to math as complicated, boring, useless and irrelevant.

 Many feel that make math more culturally relevant to disadvantaged and minority students. 

Parents, teachers, and the general public see a disconnect between the math education. “Parents and educators point to a solution: Making math education more relevant for students and more connected to the real world.

I was teaching statistical  thermodynamics to my M. Sc class ,upto my surprise I found there were many students in my class who left maths at class 10 th level. Many students get confused when I write 2x Or x**2.

I convinced my students that in world of science and technology where everything is going to be computer dependent it is not a right choice to stop studying maths at class 10 th level. 

Sukarma Thareja

Alumnus IITK

India

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Benefit of living at your own term

 Live at your own term, I have never had any experience about it when I was small. 

I was living in joint family.My mother will ask me to finish one task, but after some minutes my great aunt will ask me to do different task. 

One of the things that I learned very early in life from this exercise was that one can’t please everyone. No matter how hard one may try, there will always be someone who disagrees or unhappy with one, criticizes you, or dislikes you for some reason.

To please my mother and great aunt I used to do several extra work for them. But soon I realized I am wasting a lot of time and energy trying to change their minds or make my mother and great aunt happy, I found it is usually not worth it. 

I realized instead I should focus on being myself and do what makes me happy. I started surrounding myself with people who supported me, respected me, and appreciated me for who I was. But I made a point to be kind and respectful to others, even if they don’t reciprocate me. But don’t let them dictate my choices or my happiness. I am the only one who can live my life, so make sure I lived it on my own terms.I used to help my mother at time I was free mentally. My mother accepted and appreciated my this approach  to life

Sukarma Thareja

Alumnu

India

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How important is company one keeps

 When I was in school in my english class I was taught a idiom"man is known by the company he keeps ".Our english teacher made us make us sentence using the same idiom. But it didn't struck my chord at that time. 

As I grew up my mother taught me how to stich my torn clothes with help of sewing needle. In the process she taught me how to put  different type of stitches. 

I was very happy to learn stitching process and felt empowered that I can do something useful. My mother instructed me never to leave needle alone. As alone needle can be dangerous and can pierce someone skin, as a result some time blood also comes out. 

As soon my mother finished her instructions I told my mom"maa when needle is in good company of thread it's nature all together become different. She becomes useful as she does good task  of bringing two torn clothes together and make positive bridge. Important thing is it good example of idiom -man is known by  company he keeps ".my mother was happy to listen to my logical answer. 

Moral of story is one should try to be in company of good person, that will give one opportunity to learn positive things. 

Sukarma Thareja

Alumnus IITK

India

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Is an Old Age a Miracle

People often say age is just a number. They are right to some extent 

Sometimes I feel different numbers about my age. 

I feel very different. 

Sometimes I share different experiences with my friends.Sometimes I do not.

So with lots of sincerity and courage, I am listing the same below.

Old age is very unique. It seems it changes many times in one day. As I got up in the morning, while trying to get out of bed there came a shooting pain in my shoulder. I got scared, but the pain went off after a while. I completely forgot about that.

I wore sports shoes and went for walk for 40 minutes. I felt oh! my God I am just fifty years old. I thought let me buy some essential things from the market. I took bath and did very light makeup. I saw myself in the full mirror I found that oh my God!I am just looking forty years old beautiful woman.

 After coming from the market I went inside the kitchen and made some banana cookies for the children. I felt like I am just thirty years old. In the evening I met some old friends and had good chat with them about our young days activities of the science research lab, my students,science problems we handled, I felt like I am in my twenties.

I came back home I realized that next year I will be seventy years old.

Everyday I learn new technique, but old experiences tell me my friends oh dear! completely live every moment of life with love and enthusiasm. Friends ! I am learning with age and is thankful for the growing sunshine
of(my)  spring, for the moments when the body and the mind are together.

Sukarma Thareja

 Alumnus IITK

Dual Organism- win- win situation

I am algae. I can surprise you any time. I am a micro plant of the plant kingdom which contains chlorophyll and is capable of taking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and producing oxygen. But friends I can live only in water. I can not live on land. Without me, human life could not have existed. 

I can do a lot of adaptations. I can live in super salty water and very hot springs. I am a very creative species of this universe. I make a partnership with fungus which has no chlorophyll and can not make its own food. So friends, fungus gives me support And I make food for the fungus. We both form a dual organism which is called lichen. Lichens, one can find them on rocks and trees. 

The moral of the story is lichens are living examples of organisms helping each other. The positive point of algae and fungi are used by each other and both organisms combine to make lichens. Both are in a win-win situation. It is high time humans should learn from the plant kingdom and especially from Lichens and make win-win situations when possible.

Sukarma Thareja

Alumnus IITK

India

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