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Mental maths is a habit, not a talent

Five minutes of the right practice does more than an hour of worksheets.

Five minutes of the right practice does more than an hour of worksheets.

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Arjun S.

Teaches maths at Rao Academy for Grades 4 to 10. Eleven years in classrooms before that, most of them spent watching children hit the same wall in the same year.