Maha youth good at daily budget but failure in maths
The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), Maharashtra, by NGO Pratham shows that a good number of students in the age group of 14-16 go to school in Ahmednagar and Satara. However, while these children can count money and manage daily budget, they cannot do academic maths.
The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), Maharashtra, by NGO Pratham shows that a good number of students in the age group of 14-16 go to school in Ahmednagar and Satara. However, while these children can count money and manage daily budget, they cannot do academic maths.
In Ahmednagar, the literacy rate is 79.1% whereas in Satara it is 82.9%. In Ahmednagar, 90.7% youth (male and female) between age 14-18, 96.3% between age 14-16 and 80.6% between age 17-18 were enrolled in standard XII or below. Also, only 12.7% youth between age 17-18 are enrolled for under graduation or other. Whereas in Satara district 87.6% youth (male and female) between age 14-18, 97.1% between age 14-16 and 71.8% youth between age 17-18 were enrolled in standard XII or below. Only 15.5% youth age 17-18 are enrolled for under graduation or other in Satara.In Ahmednagar, 75.7% youth were able to do daily task like counting money and 69.3% were able to manage a budget. In Satara, 80.8% youth were able to count money and 66.1% were able to manage a budget. But in academics at arithmetic levels only 34.0% youth were able to do division, 26.6% youth subtraction and only 39.5% were able to recognise the numbers (10-99) or below in Ahmednagar. In Satara, only 39.1% youth knew division, 25.1% knew subtraction and 35.9% could recognise the numbers (10-99) or below.
The digital knowledge of the youth between age group of 14-18 in Ahmednagar shows that 14.2% youth never used mobile, 46.3% never used internet and 31.4% never used a computer. In Satara, 9.2% youth never used mobile, 40.9% never used internet and 20.5% never used a computer.Farida Lambay, co-founder, NGO Pratham, said: "This time our survey was different, and we chose the age group of 14-18 who are adolescents just to find out where are these children after standard VIII as we hear about a lot of dropouts. And the good news is that a majority of them from Maharashtra were found in schools. In Ahmednagar and Satara, it was found that these children can do functional maths that is calculation in day-to-day life easily, but when given a theory or academic maths their performance was low."