Abstract:
In past independent India, great emphasis has been placed on mathematics teaching and learning. The education commission (1964-66) recommended mathematics as a compulsory subject for students at school level. The commission seemed to have been influenced by international opinion at that particular time and favoured new mathematics which later pervaded secondary education. That was the era of sets and the algebra of sets. In the teaching of mathematics emphasis should be more on the understanding of basic principles than one the mechanical teaching of mathematical computations'. Commenting on the prevailing situation in school it is observed that in the average school, today instruction still conforms to a mechanical routine continues to be dominated by the old be setting evil of verbalism and therefore remains as dull and uninspiring as before.
