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demanding quality education and starts

participating in its delivery. At Akshara,

we believe that for effective transformative

change to happen we need a holistic model

that makes sure that children, teachers,

educators, community members, elected

representatives, NGOs and the government

all see value. And all the bits have to play

together concurrently for impact,’ says

Ashok Kamath, Chairman and Managing

Trustee, Akshara foundation.

Akshara’s programmes include the

Karnataka Learning Partnership to bring

together all stakeholders in the public

education space in Karnataka in order to

make it more accountable, transparent and

solve the complex challenges of the sector; as

well as its world-class flagship programme,

Ganitha Kalika Andolana (GKA) (which

means mathematics learning movement) and

which works to bring children up to grade

appropriate levels in maths through innovative

teaching learning materials, and developing a

gamified app, Building Blocks, with over 400

Math games mapped to the state textbook

syllabus, available in 9 regional languages.

GKA has now scaled up and is the State-

adopted numeracy programme for all 90,000+

government schools in Karnataka and Odisha.

Teachers need to learn the new methods too, so they can inspire young minds with a passion for Math

HCLTech Grant Project Title:

Ganitha Kalika

Andolana (GKA)-Learning Math the Fun Way

Beneficiaries:

71300 government primary

schools children in Grades 1-5, 4000 children

in tribal residential schools in Grade 1-5,

2500 Government primary schools Math and

head teachers, and 80 tribal residence school

teachers, 60 State resource persons

Location:

1237 villages in Dhenkanal district

of Odisha