N. Raghuraman’s Column – Who will dominate us due to lacked of mathematical knowledge? , N. Raghuraman’s column: Who will dominate us due to lack of mathematical knowledge?

N. Raghuraman, Management Guru

Do you remember when the whole primary class used to repeat ‘Ek Ekam Ek, A Dooni Do’ to ’16, 16 Dooni 32′ in the entire primary class one. In fact, at that time she was remembering the mountains from 1 to 16. Until we were proficient in remembering the mountains from 1 to 16, in those days our mathematics teachers did not write anything on the black board. And today we are seeing the result.

On the strength of that foundation, we immediately calculate how much money the ration has to pay and if there is 23% discount on something, then how much we will save. Then came the calculator. Gradually, children started questioning us why read the mountains?

The mountains were over loudly. Then recently the chatbot came, which even if you mumb something in your mother tongue, will still make a sentence in the language of your choice. Now the day is not far when the next generation will question why they should also read the language.

Now come directly on July 2025. It is a surprising figure that 63% of the ninth grade students have also failed to identify normal patterns of marks. They do not understand normal marks like different and integer. School students of sixth grade in India do not understand the main lessons of books.

In December last year, this conclusion has been found in the ‘Parakh’ National Survey conducted by the Ministry of Education, which was earlier called the National Achievement Survey. In the survey, 21,15,022 students of the third, sixth and ninth grade of 74,229 schools in 781 districts of 36 states and union territories were assessed.

It was found that 54% of the students of the sixth grade failed to compare the interaction and read the large numbers. This reflects the weakness of learning in the country’s education system. The survey said that students also have difficulty in calculating percentage and different for everyday needs, identification of prime numbers, prime numbers of 3.

Then who is going to dominate our lives while calculating our purchase, pay, overtime? Of course, AI? Do not dismiss it by saying that it will take a lot of time for AI to interfere in our everyday life.

Recall how the horse train owners in 1835 rejected the impact of the world’s first rail in 1830 from Liverpool to Manchester in UK. He said that rail traffic will never be heavy on their business. And the rail not only ended their business, but also gave impetus to the industrial revolution in the whole world in a few years.

When the media asked ‘Sepians’ author Yawal Noa Harari, whether the ability of human will be reduced in the AI ​​era? He replied that ‘I think, areas in which we will first see major changes include a systematic system.’ Because finance is purely an information related area.

Self -driving vehicles have not yet left much impact on modern life, as they are still learning about pedestrian habits (bad habits) and pits. But in the case of finance, this is the case of ‘Information in’ and ‘Information Out’. That is why it will be very easy for AI to control this area.

Harari predicts that once the AI ​​dominates the finance sector, it will start investing in the devices, due to mathematical complications, the human brain is unable to deal with. Now look at the mountains mentioned above, due to which our children could not have a strong relationship with the numerals. Mobile snatched our memory to remember numbers. No one can refuse to believe that AI is an agent who can calculate, but not a tool that is controlled in our hands.

Funda is that The more we run away from mathematics, the more AI will overcome everyday life. Now you decide whether we want to give numerical intelligence to the next generation or not?