It’s like the Swara Bhaskar-starrer Neel Batte Sannata coming to life. Everyone has a fear of mathematics, and once the question paper is passed around, start sweating and having blank outs when they see the numbers, squares, square roots, surds, logs, quadratic equations, etc.
But now, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), according to a Hindustan Times report, is likely to give students the option of choosing the paper they would like to attempt. Those who would not pursue mathematics at a higher level would now have the option of taking an easier exam, the report added.
According to the report, this may start as a pilot project in 2019, and depending on the success, could be extended to Class XII board exams. “The board has formed a 15-member committee comprising mathematics experts, and those from universities, schools and the National Council of Educational Research and Training,” the report added.
Too much mathematics can be overwhelming and this has been proven. In 2016, it was revealed that physicists avoid highly mathematical work despite being trained in advanced mathematics.
The study shows that physicists pay less attention to theories that are crammed with mathematical details. This suggests there are real and widespread barriers to communicating mathematical work, and that this is not because of poor training in mathematical skills, or because there is a social stigma about doing well in mathematics. Dr Tim Fawcett and Dr Andrew Higginson, from the University of Exeter, found, using statistical analysis of the number of citations to 2000 articles in a leading physics journal, that articles are less likely to be referenced by other physicists if they have lots of mathematical equations on each page.
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