Dear friend, 

On behalf of the Jeevan Shiksha Parishad family, we wish you all the best! As you all know, child-education-scientists all agree that if any child learns mathematics from the elementary level in a simple and child-friendly way, then the proper development of his mental capacity is possible.

As a result,

 1) He acquires the ability to learn all subjects correctly 

2) The ability to think in the child increases, which makes the overall development of the child easy! 

Again, child scientists have also seen that like the rest of the world, most children in this country are weak in numbers! 

That is because children are not taught maths properly, or they don't get the opportunity!

Against this backdrop, the mathematics textbooks currently prescribed for primary school children in West Bengal are excellent examples of how children can be taught the basic steps of mathematics through hands-on play. This was introduced in 2012. 

We have been doing some in-depth work with the students of some schools on how to teach a child from addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, HCF, LCM, squares, areas, or algebraic subjects through hands-on training. 

For your information, after the closure of schools due to the lockdown in the country, from 16th June 2020, we conducted classes mainly for primary school students via television, which were seen from all over West Bengal on Siti Care channel. At present the classes are being broadcast on Malda Today Channel (Siti Cable) Channel No. 304 after the restoration of the schools. Because we have seen that there are many children who don't have an Android phone at home but at least have a TV connection.

And there are many who told us not to discontinue this program! Basically for them, with the financial support of friends, after showing the classes on TV, they are uploaded on YouTube channel named Jeevan Shiksha. In addition to the teachers of various schools, several expert doctors, psychologists, scientists, farmers, writers, theater workers, potters and people from different walks of life are taking classes.

The classes that are being created to teach various subjects of mathematics hands-on by following the various advanced methods mentioned in the Bengali medium math book of West Bengal Government schools, are many times better than the various "famous" education apps. 

Let me give a small example. 

Children can literally learn by touch that LCM of 15 and 12 is 60.

Thus addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, HCF, LCM etc., children can learn all basic maths using sticks, pebbles, paper, etc. We present in our classes that every process can be understood hands-on. This is why we named our event 

"Khelte khelte pora, porte porte khela" 

( Let's learn while playing, lets have fun while studying! ) 

But unfortunately, these issues are actually practiced in very few schools at present. And some interested teachers of several schools told us about organizing workshops on these issues.

Again, you also know that the pioneer of hands-on science education and popularization of science, the former director of Birla Industrial and Technological Museum and the director of the famous science program Quest, Hon'ble Samar Bagchi Sir has been a long-time supporter of hands-on science learning and how to teach science. He worked through all his life. He also gifted some of his precious classes to our students which we have recorded.

We feel that we all need an organization to spread these works of respected Samar Bagchi Sir where there will be samples of the materials he used to teach science. There will be worksheets and videos on how to use those materials and arrangements will be made to organize training camps in that regard at certain times of the year.

The materials should be made available to all. Again, the subjects of hands-on maths and science education which are being made by Jeevan Shiksha Parishad as video content and are being implemented in Radhanagar Board Primary School, if they are kept in a large room in the form of a museum in a planned and well-equipped form, then we can take a multi-faceted plan around it. 

In such a situation, Jeevan Shiksha Parishad has planned to build a museum with the aim of promoting and spreading mathematics and science education.