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I am from India. The school I went to (70-80s) wasn't the best, but I had an innate aptitude for math (perhaps genetic). I was lucky to get introduced to some
by vardhanw 5y ago
I am from India. The school I went to (70-80s) wasn't the best, but I had an innate aptitude for math
(perhaps genetic). I was lucky to get introduced to some Russian math texts [1][2] from my 3rd/4th standards which helped me (alongwith some local texts) to get good scholarships and rankings in Maths and science
competitions (including a national level Math olympiad) and a later admission to a top level engg college in IIT
(again thanks to accessing good libraries for foreign authored books). I see the Russian books as having provided
me with a good foundation by being fun and interesting, informative, affordable, immersive and engaging and it
really fuelled my interest in math and science. Given the resurgence of the Russian school of math in the US I
wish I could be there to educate my children in that tradition. But not being there (out of choice and circumstance,
I studied in Boston for a while) I really wish something like this was available in India.
So my question is - is there some sort of a curriculum and associated training material (books, texts) available based on the Russian way
of teaching, on which to develop a training plan
locally in a country like India? Given the plethora of online school education options available today I do not
know what exact training methods are used there, but platforms exist to have a broader reach for teachers to find interested
students. I presume it would not be too difficult to setup a curriculum and training outside the
normal school one with the explicit intention of developing strong math skills based on a Russian math education
base if one wants to teach.
[1] Mainly by Mir publishers, some of which are thankfully still available online @mirtitles.org
[2] the ones I got were at throwaway prices, titles such as Yakov Perelman's Fun with Math, some
Little Mathematics Library books physics, chemistry, cybernetics etc.