of the pie may not be big but has huge potential by the virtue of the population size in india with a national education budget of rs 18337 crore private tutoring is currently valued at a huge rs 7000 crore math constitutes over onethird of this parents spend rs 10000 crore to help children with postschool aids and other educational paraphernalia in this scenario educomps bid is to provide a way around expensive tutorials the mathguru costs rs 1200 and it is a onetime costmathgurus website is designed to help students complete their homework practice and revise importantly it creates and increases the students interest says abhinav dhar senior vicepresident educomp solutions ltd as parents we can concentrate on our work leaving our children to solve math problems on their own he goes on to sayjohn holt in his absorbing study how children fail used his lifelong experience in education to find answers to how mass failure takes place and what really goes on in classrooms he writes that even without the help of aids children seem to be innately gifted learners acquiring long before they go to school a vast quantity of knowledge by a process called piagetian learning or learning without being taught but our educational culture gives mathematics learners scarce resources for making sense of what they are learning as a result our children are forced to follow the very worst model for learning mathematics the model of rote learning he says adding that the childs perception is fundamentally correct the kind of mathematics foisted on children in school is not meaningful fun or even very usefulmathguru sees math as fun it uses illustrations and stepbystep procedures to explain the problem and arrive at a solution experts use their own voice and a virtual pen to explain how to make it more personal recreating the ambience of a classroom