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First and foremost, individuals should always seek out licensed and experienced massage therapists who are trained to provide safe and appropriate treatments. Communication is key – be sure to discuss any pre-existing medical conditions, injuries, or concerns with the therapist to ensure that the massage is tailored to your specific needs and limitations.In the popular Malayalam movie Spadikam (Glass Prism, 1995), Chacko Maash (Master Chacko, played by late thespian Thilakan) says in Malayalam: “ Bhoogolathinte Spandanam Thanne Mathematicsilaanu” (the whole spirit of the earth lies in mathematics). Swati Sircar, a math educator at Azim Premji University, also speaks for the importance of math education and why learning math is inevitable. However, unlike Master Chacko, an apostle of indoctrination and “beat and learn” pedagogy, Ms Sircar follows the spirit of the Montessori method of education through self-understanding and fun. In Spadikam, Chacko’s pedagogical method involved telling his students to gulp down algebraic identities. If they didn’t, the cane was waiting for them. Ms. Sircar makes materials out of cardboard rolls accompanied with toilet paper as instructional aids to teach concepts such as Numbers and Operations, Geometry and Spatial Understanding, and Statistics and Probability. “I follow a low-cost, no-cost method of teaching,” says Ms. Sircar who has been teaching students for more than a decade through Math Space, an initiative by Ms. Sircar that works teachers, teacher educators and anyone who is helping teachers. Ms. Sircar uses used boxes and newspaper pages to upcycle. “Learning is a biological, neurological, emotional, and cognitive act. Learning is a thing that happens at every moment or any biological entity. But when it comes to education, that becomes a more social endeavor,” says Ishan Santra, a math education researcher at Michigan State University. According to Mr. Santra, education is a structured way of imparting knowledge through a system with the help of a set curriculum. As he puts it, education traditionally is an imposition of a set of expertise. Nonetheless, the Montessori way of education where Sircar grew up looks at education from the point of view of constant engagement and exploration on their own. “It is important to make everything one learns as practical as possible. And experiential learning is considered an accepted pedagogy,” says K Jayakumar IAS, the former chief secretary of Kerala, who played a prominent part in popularising the inspired education program Kerala named after the District Primary Education Programme (DPEP). Although many critics have criticized the proposal, Mr. Jayakumar still believes that pedagogy works well when learning a subject such as mathematics. The many ways in which a puppet can face the banana illustrate three-dimensional space. | Photo by Special Arrangement Although Mr. Jayakumar is aware of the effectiveness of Montessori education, he is still determining how the program will be implemented, as he is pretty skeptical about whether the original methodology will be popularly followed. “The teacher I had during this primary was trained under Maria Montessori,” says Ms. Sircar. So Ms. Sircar got the Montessori spirit in full swing with very little loss in transmission. “Certain Montessori materials have already seeped into the mainstream, such as arrow cards. I have extended it to decimal numbers,” says Sirkar, who now teaches math at the Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. Arrow cards let children learn about place value in the number system. The arrow cards with labels are placed in a stack to get a sense of the order of the numbers. If a teacher says 25, the student picks the card labeled as 20 and pairs it up with 5, which makes the number 25 as the card 20 is in ten’s place and number 5 in unit place. Ms. Sircar states that mathematics is like a language. At one level, language is a means of communication. But it can also be used for weaving stories and poems. Likewise, mathematics helps us count in daily life, but it also has an element of beauty. Her philosophy is to make learning joyful so that children grasp it effortlessly. Math Space by Ms. Sircar was invited to conduct several workshops with government school teachers from several states with a strong emphasis on matherial making. In a typical Math Space workshop for teachers, “We explore concepts and all related aspects with suitable materials and activities. Each table of 4-6 teachers gets a full set of all necessary materials and stationery so that participants can engage with the materials directly.” These materials are upcycled from used cardboards and newspapers. Similarly, Vijay Ravikumar, a math communicator at APU, finds teaching math a fun activity through new ways like puppetry. He had his primary education and PhD entirely in the U.S. before he moved to Mumbai to work as a mathematician. Mr. Ravikumar’s other interest was in puppetry, and this hobby once crossed paths with mathematics to convey the concept of spatial orientation. “I never actually linked these together, but in this specific scenario, it made sense. There’s a certain idea in mathematics when studying geometry and topology, say in your PhD. It has to do with the set of ways in which we can orient ourselves in three-dimensional space,” says Ravikumar. “I had gone to a movement workshop by a group from Manipur and they used this a lot in their traditional style of movement,” Mr. Ravikumar reckons and adds, “it’s the fact that if you move your hand in a around in 360°, your arm will get quite twisted up. And if you rotate another 360 degrees, your arm will untwist and return to its starting point. This is just a property of space and how we move around.” Mr. Ravikumar, through his workshop, uses a puppet to perform this movement trick and then explains the complex concept of topology. Along with puppetry, Mr. Ravikumar also talks about concepts like geodesics through worksheet assignments and with bicycle rides along a long sheet kept on the floors. “For me, mathematics lets me connect with lots of different people that I may not be able to connect with easily otherwise,” Mr. Ravikumar says. While Mr. Ravikumar is sure about the universality of mathematics, education researchers like Mr. Santra feel that making math accessible requires much effort, such as breaking and tweaking the social barriers. According to him, making mathematics accessible to people from all backgrounds requires quashing the elite mentality of who gets to learn what mathematics since maths has been used in the past to marginalize the socially disadvantaged people further. Ms. Sircar, an advocate of math outreach, says that making mathematics accessible “is a prerequisite for equality”, pointing to her “low cost, no cost” way. Meanwhile, the scaling up of engagement activities should not unduly stress math teachers who are already swamped with strict timetables and lesson plans, says Mr. Ravikumar. “Making mathematics accessible through creative ways like Arrow Cards or Puppetry should be done with care and ensure the teachers themselves feel the joy of learning. 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But the hubris of younger people that insist that they “invented” something that a lot of us know has been here for a while..my teeth get on edge. In respect to all of the younger singer/songwriters, none of them would exist without the “confessional works” of Joni Mitchell, Janis Ian and Laura Nyro. Ask any current singer who their influences are and those names will continually pop up because THEY invented the “confessional” genre, along with the now mandatory piece where the artist sits at a white grand piano and soulfully plays a song consisting of four chords and no bridge. What can I say? Songwriting was taken a lot more seriously 60 years ago. And I know how this sounds. An old (white) guy complaining about how the music he grew up with was so much better and how nothing produced now could ever replace it. Well, nothing will. Those memories and the excitement of hearing some of these artists perform for the first time are unique to my generation. Sorry the younger folks missed out. And the newer stuff will take some time to find an emotional place in our hearts. However, there is quality work being produced now. How could there not be? I’ve already rhapsodized about Taylor Swift and Billie Ellish. I was pleased to see that artists like Ms. Carpenter (whose work stands out as both retro and futuristic), Chappell Roan, Olivia Rodrigo and so many others either write or co-write all their tunes. I may have a problem with the specific musical formats they use, but, if it’s a solidly built song, I’m in. What frankly concerns me is the weight an artist’s political stance or how they identify themselves plays in their acceptance by an audience. That wasn’t always the case. In our day, artists were pretty much accepted as who they presented themselves to be. That all changed with David Bowie and Annie Lennox. Their androgynous appearances may have raised fans' eyebrows, but, in the end, it didn’t matter. If you had already connected with an artist based on their artistic expression, you went along for the rest of the ride. Social media has made these concerns almost as important as the music and that’s wrong. All art has to be considered for its own sake and not necessarily the particulars of its creators. After all, bad people often make great art. Nate Jones, writing for “The Vulture,” opined that Chappell Roan got too famous too fast and couldn’t deal with the pressure. Fame, as David Bowie once wrote, does change a person. How they handle it determines their longevity in the field of endeavor they’ve chosen. We’ve seen freak outs before. Axl Rose was famous for them. Gene Simmons of KISS walked out of an interview with Terry Gross. Jimi Hendrix walked off the stage at Madison Square Garden claiming he just didn’t “feel it.” The interaction between an artist and their audience is often crucial to a great gig. 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