Abstract:
The future of the nation is steered in a positive direction by
developing the basic intelligibility in mathematical operations i.e., by 'the
mathematisation '(NCF-2005) of learners. The narrow aim of school
mathematics is to develop 'useful' capabilities, particularly those relating
to numeracy-numbers, number operations, measurements, decimals, and
percentages. For perfect mathematisation its necessary that learners have
an understanding of numbers-numeracy and there operations i.e.,
knowledge how to adds; subtract any two quantities, multiply and divide
any two quantities at the elementary stage of learning so as to move to
abstractness from concreteness.
But it's very unpleasant experience for a teacher who encounters
that learner at elementary level specifically upper-primary level don't
have sufficient hand on in handling operations on numbers, that are very
frequent in mathematics and without its mathematics cannot be imagined,
of these numbers the most important part is operations on integers i.e.,
there addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. If a learner fails to
understand the operations on integers probably s/he may not be able to
move to abstractness and would indulge in self-conflict to leave
mathematics or does not like mathematics. To ensure the understanding
and love towards mathematics it should be kept in mind to generalise and
explain the ideas of mathematics in a simple language using relevant
pedagogy and make learners understand the concepts.