As per the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) in January, only 25.3 per cent Class III student can attempt a two-digit subtraction while the percentage of Class II students who cannot recognise numbers up to nine has increased from 11.3 per cent in 2009 to 19.5 per cent in 2014. When Ashok Kamath, chairman of Bangalore-based, Akshara Foundation, came across these facts this January, he was shocked. Soon after he started a national campaign to draw attention to this “much-feared subject”. The result: a ‘make in India’ initiative by his foundation, called #MathinIndia.

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