Science Education

About 140 participants from about 20 countries are attending this conference organised by the Homi Bhabha Centre For Science Education (HBCSE).Mathematics, which has been treated in isolation for long and used to divide the society, should be applied to overcome social prejudices, the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) director Krishna Kumar said .There is accepted prejudices for mathematics in the society, which even divided the society. Educationists did not take much efforts to bridge the gap produced due to this divide for a long time.If there is one subject that could link all subjects, including politics and economics, it is mathematics and the educationists should try and bridge the gap.Unfortunately, those bridges are yet to be visualised by the teaching community.It is time educationists and teachers come together to work on various innovative methods to express linkages to students at the primary and secondary schools.