Si hav lokana When walking through the forest, the lion stops. He looks back. He looks forward. Then continues on his journey. INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF VEDIC MATHEMATICS ## Newsletter February 2023 ## Welcome to the IAVM Newsletter! Warmest thoughts and best wishes for a Happy 2023! With this Newsletter we bring you a snapshot of our 2022 activities. You can find further information, together with videos and reports, on our website at www.instavm.org. 2022 was a busy year for IAVM. We expanded our reach and executed a bunch of old and new projects which give testament to growing interest and engagement in VM. These include two international conferences, a series of webinars, online live courses for undergraduates and teachers, and the second VM Olympiad. We would like to express our heartfelt thanks for your continued support and encouragement. If you are working with Vedic Maths, such as in research, promoting, teaching or just learning and have a story to tell, we would love to hear from you. You can easily get in touch by email at instituteavm@gmail.com. James Glover - Editor ## **Highlights and Projects of 2022** ## **Kolam** ~~**-**~~ **A Ritualistic Mathematical Art Form** Over a weekend last January we ran four hands-on workshops on Kolam. Throughout centuries, Tamil women have practised this ritualistic art form involving patterns drawn on thresholds of homes. The patterns express mathematical concepts such as skip counting, number shapes and symmetry. Participants were able to explore the overlaps between culture, art and mathematics. They were also invited to practise making simple Pulli, Sikku, Padi and Mandala Kolams. **Lilavati Competition** The 2nd Lilavati competition was held in February for which contestents submitted poems, rhymes and riddles involving Maths. There were nearly 60 entries and the panel of judges chose winners on the strength of poeticism, creativity, mathematics and presentation. The winners for each category are shown below. |**Category**
**1st Place**
**2nd Place**
**3rd Place**|**Category**
**1st Place**
**2nd Place**
**3rd Place**|**Category**
**1st Place**
**2nd Place**
**3rd Place**|**Category**
**1st Place**
**2nd Place**
**3rd Place**| |---|---|---|---| |**8 - 10**|Shree Arsshiya Balaji
|Tanav Patkar|Krshav Thakur| |**11 - 13**|Anushka Tonapi
|Sanjana Roy|Suhani Thakur| |**14 - 16**|Sriya Balaji
|Mrunmayee Yawale|Aniruddha Ambewadikar| |**Open**|Sreenivasa Ainapurapu
|Vajindar Kaur|V S Venkatavaradan| A selection of entries from last year’s competition have been put together in a beautifully illustrated volume. Please write to us if you are interested in receiving the book. The illustrations are by one of this year’s winners, Tanav Patkar. ## **8th Online International Vedic Maths Conference** On March 12 and 13, IAVM hosted the 2-day online event which featured distinguished Vedic Mathematics teachers/trainers presenting their initiatives, and scholars sharing their research work. On day 2 the IAVM faculty and other VM Trainers offered free workshops for students and teachers on innovative approaches to learning and teaching mathematics. We heard about initiatives by Jyoti Pandya and Anand Prabha in India, Hassan Oleik in Lebanon, Thair Raid in Iraq and Ike Prudente in the Philippines, all of whom are engaged in teaching VM and expanding the awareness of Vedic Maths in their countries. Participants at the conference expressed their delight and gratitude for the enthrawling workshops. You can read the detailed report of the conference here. To watch the workshop videos click here. ## **Knowledge Series 2** Knowledge Series is an initiative by IAVM to host free webinars on mathematical understanding, both ancient and modern, which relate to Vedic mathematics or to the development of mathematics in India and diverse cultures. We continued from the previous year with four webinars given by esteemed guest speakers. _Major Landmarks in the Kerala Mathematics Tradition_ Dr. V. Madhukar Mallaya _Vedic Mathematics for Asthankolakalam Aesthetic Education An Ancient Mathematical Treatise in Tamil_ Laura Aimo Dr. Smt. Sita Sundar Ram _Contribution of Ancient Indian Mathematics to Algebra_ Ravi Asrani Video recordings of each webinar are available on our YouTube channel here. ## **IAVM International Symposium on VM in Digital Technologies** On April 29 - 30 we conducted a weekend online symposium for MIT World Peace University, in Pune India, attended by many students as well as faculty. The workshops focussed on VM algorithms that can be used in computer programming. From the point of view of the presenters, as well as from feedback given by the students and the faculty, the symposium was a great success. Our sincere gratitude to Prof. Dr Milind Pande, Pro-Vice- Chancellor, Prof. Dr Shubhalaxmi Joshi, Associate Dean, Faculty of Science, the organizing committee, the faculty, and the students of MITWPU for all their support and encouragement. **5th International Vedic Maths Conference, Kerala** After a gap of three years due to the pandemic situation all over the world, the much awaited 5th International Vedic mathematics Conference was held at Sree Sankara College, Kalady, Kerala, from 11th - 13th August 2022. The event was sponsored by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) and the Education Renaissance Trust, UK, which supports schools and teachers who put spiritual values at the heart of education. We were privileged to be hosted by the college which is located close to the birthplace of Adi Shankara. The faculty and undergraduate students at the college were incredibly supportive and welcoming and the conference certainly could not have run smoothly without their unstinting work. Our heartfelt thanks go out to them. Research papers from around the world were of exceptional quality. Subjects ranged from advancements and new discoveries in the applications of Vedic maths techniques through to revelations concerning the brilliant classical astronomers and mathematicians of India in relation to trigonometry, calculus and encoding. In due course, research papers will be published in the conference proceedings and also made available on the IAVM website. ## **International Vedic Maths Olympiad (IVMO 2022)** The 2nd International Vedic Mathematics Olympiad was held on 26th November 2022, to test use of VM techniques, speed of thought and mathematical acumen. There were six levels of entry, Primary A, Primary B, Junior, Intermediate, Senior and Open. The competition was made available both online and offline and managed through Centre Coordinators. We had over 1800 entries, which was a three-fold increase from the first year.. Competitors came from ten countries. The vast majority of entries came from the Philippines, thanks to the amazing work of Ike Prudente who runs several VM centres there and has encouraged schools to take part. Participants were awarded certificates, gold, silver and bronze for the top 10%, next 20% and next 30%. The top three in each category will soon be highlighted on our website and Facebook page. The highest achievers in each category are shown below. |**Primary B**|**Primary A**|**Junior**| |---|---|---| |1st Sean Lewis Santillan|1st Ryu S. Bertoso|1st Aryaman Mittal| |2nd Saeko Jade Taclobao|2nd Zoe Asiel Castro|2nd Jeremiah E. Lubiano| |3rd AshlayJane Tajada|=3rd Jaden F. Laureta
=3rd Sean M. Cobankiat|3rd Sharlene A. Cirineo| |**Intermediate**||**Open**| ||**Senior**|| |1st Xreen Leigh Andres|1st Francez Angelyn Gaspar|1st Daniel James Molina| |2nd Joanne Kirsten Racelis|2nd Amber MayBagtang|2nd Ralph Moses Padilla| |3rd Jalenn Gavierrez|=3rd Ruturaj Alornekar
=3rd Aron Dan Pastrana|3rd Germaine Lisa Ang| |||| ## **IAVM Invited on All India Radio** Swati Dave, CEO of IAVM, was invited to discuss the merits of Vedic Maths live on All India Radio. This was a follow up conversation after Narendra Modiji’s segment on VM in ‘Mann Ki Baat’. This was in relation to the Government of India’s new education policy to include aspects of Indian heritage within schools and colleges. You can see the interview after 29 minutes on this link. ## **Partnerships** 2022 was a year of increasing partnerships. IAVM signed MOU’s with JKMS Foundation, Hindu College - Delhi, CCSU - Meerut, VM Tunisia and ICAD - Lebanon. These institutes have realised the need for close linkage with IAVM to share a common interest in the dissemination of Vedic Mathematics. ## **Hindu College Course** Ancient Indian Wisdom: Vedic Mathematics (Level 1), Add-on Course was hosted by Hindu College, University of Delhi in collaboration with IAVM from October 1 to November 13, 2022. 30 students of Delhi University took this 30-hour course conducted by IAVM faculty, and were assessed and awarded certificates at the end. Our sincere gratitude to the Principal, Prof. Anju Srivastava, Vice-Principal Prof. Reena Jain, Course Convenor Dr. Kanta Garg, Course Coordinator Dr. Samridhi Mehta, Dr. Sunil Joshi, and the students for all their support and encouragement. ## **Vedic Maths in Lebanon** Our partnership with Lebanon continues with our Master Training program, Teacher certifications, and provision of teacher and student resources. We completed the Level 2 of the Master Trainer workshops in December 2022. Students have started to learn VM approach in their regular math classes at school ## **Certification** IAVM launched the initiative to award three levels of certification (Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced), each divided into three further levels of Novice, Proficiency and Advanced. Certification can be accomplished by successfully completing the IAVM assessments. The topics under each level are applicable to maths syllabus of Grades 3 - 12. Nearly 160 students/teachers from Philippines are now certified at different levels of Foundation. We look forward to expand this offering in a more structured manner and also partner with schools and colleges to encourage the students to take the assessments. ## **International Workshop at Kanya Maha Vidyalaya (KMV)** On September 3, James Glover conducted a workshop introducing Vedic Mathematics to students at KMV, Punjab. Attendees were delighted with the wonderful methods and tehniques. ## **What to Look Out For in 2023** For all our upcoming events keep a look out on our website, www.instavm.org, and our Facebook page. ## **Knowledge Series 3** Another series of free webinars will be offered in the coming months ## **9th Online Annual Conference** ~~**-**~~ **July** A call for papers and presentations will be sent out soon. ## L **ilavati** The Maths poetry and riddle competition will again be run during May and June. ## **Masterclasses** ~~**-**~~ **March** ~~**-**~~ **June** A series of masterclasses will be presented by James Glover demonstrating solutions to last year’s IVMO papers. ## **IVMO 2023** The International Vedic Maths Olympiad will be held in November. Sample papers and past papers are available on our Competitions page. ## **Support** Understandably, all these activities take many hours of preparation and our team work tirelessly to accomplish this. To sustain and ensure that we continue we need your support. Please check our Facebook page, Volunteer page, Donate page abd YouTube channel to see how you can be involved in supporting us.. ## **The Institute For The Advancement of Vedic Mathematics** A n n u a l F i n a n c i a l Re p o r t f o r t h e ye a r e n d e d 1 5 - J a n - 2 0 2 3 ## **Contents:** Statement of financial position as at 15-Jan-23 (Balance Sheet) Statement of Receipts and Payments for the year ended 15-Jan-23 Statement of inflows and outflows of cash for the year ended 15-Jan-23 Notes to Account Schedules to Balance Sheet (1-5) Consolidated receipts and payments statement 2017-2023 ## **The Institute For The Advancement of Vedic Mathematics** ## **The Institute For The Advancement of Vedic Mathematics** ## **The Institute For The Advancement of Vedic Mathematics** ## **The Institute For The Advancement of Vedic Mathematics** 1Financial year end date is taken to be 15th January every year. 2 IAVM is considered to be a going concern and the books of accounts are maintained as such. ## 3 Revenue: Revenue is recognised on cash basis. The amount stated as revenue is actually received and held at various locations. ## 4 Expenditure: Expenditure is recognized on accrual basis. Expenditure yet to be paid on account of any transactions during the financial year shall be identified and recognised as expenditure ## 5 Assets and depreciation: There are no assets held by the charity to date except the cash and bank balances by members at various locations Hence no depreciation policy is placed into account. The books and publications printed are taken into account as expenditure during the year they are printed. A record of sales/donations on the publication and the closing balances is maintained at various locations. The revenue on sale of books is however considered on cash basis in the period actually sold. ## 6 Memberships: Registrations for Annual Memberships will end on the date one year from the date of registration or actual receipt of payment whichever is earlier. Life memberships will be effective from the actual date of payment of fees A separate restricted fund is maintained for the life membership fees. The utilization of this fund will be decided by the trustees in a separate trustees meeting. ## **The Institute For The Advancement of Vedic Mathematics** ## 7 Registrations for conferences: Revenue generated from registrations of conferences is purposed to be used for payments for services rendered by moderators/ faculty. Excess revenue if any from the same is to be kept in the country of the conference for application of funds for future conferences in that country. If for any reason the same cannot be held in the country of the conference, the excess is transferred to UK Lloyds A/c using acceptable fund transfer methods. ## 8 International Vedic Mathematics Conference – Kerala: During the year, the 5th International Vedic Mathematics Conference was held in the month of August 2022 in Kaladi, Kerala. All the monies received are allocated into a separate fund after deducting the payments made so far on the same. This is due to pending receipts from one sponsor and pending payments for reimbursement of expenditure to key contributors for the conference. The revenue recognition on this account will be made after the said transactions are made. ## 9 Professional Fees Payable: Professional fees payable to key resource persons with respect to all the revenue generated projects undertaken during the year and the previous year has been identified by the Board and approved in the finance committee meeting held during the year. The fees thus recognized will be paid during the first quarter of the financial year 2023. ## 10 Reporting Currency: In line with the special resolution taken during the AGM held in February 2022, the consolidated statement of accounts are made in the reporting currency i.e., GBP. The opening balances are taken at the exchange rate as at 15th January 2022, Transactions during the year are taken at the exchange rate as at 15th January 2023. The closing balances have been arrived accordingly with this adjustment. The cash flow statement and the statement of cash position for the year ended 15th January 2023, however, is shown at the currencies held at various locations. ## **The Institute For The Advancement of Vedic Mathematics** ## **The Institute For The Advancement of Vedic Mathematics** ## **Consolidated Receipts and Payments from Year ended January 2017 – January 2023** |**Particulars**|**Jan - 2023**|**Jan - 2022**|**Jan - 2021**|**Jan - 2020**|**Jan - 2019**|**Jan - 2018**|**Jan - 2017**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Receipts**|**Amount GBP**|**Amount GBP**|**Amount GBP**|**Amount GBP**|**Amount GBP**|**Amount GBP**|**Amount GBP**| |Online conference
Donations
Membership
Sale of books
International Conference
IVMO
Certifications
Projects:
Baghdad
Masterclass by James Glover
IMI
Kalkeri
lebanon
Kolam Workshop
Hindu College
MIT-Pune
Tunisia
CCCU - Meerut
**Total Receipts(A)**
**Payments**
Website
Zoom
Google Storage
Professional Fees
International conference expenditure
ISBN
**Total Payments(B)**
**Excess of Receipts overpayments(A-B)**|258.25
123.00
575.87
81.28
7,196.89
5,028.14
705.54
1,079.92
563.00
145.99
591.43
825.59
86.10
30.18
**17,291.18**
1,163.18
187.24
15.99
8,829.06
3,690.70
**13,886.17**
**3,405.01**|218.69
78.82
79.37
1,525.31
376.57
1,055.82
211.39
838.00
**4,383.97**
113.84
155.90
15.99
1,160.30
**1,446.03**
**2,937.94**|208.25
994.45
124.93
103.37
254.22
**1,685.22**
909.85
14.39
15.99
520.00
**1,460.23**
**224.99**|132.76
1,844.48
494.19
431.91
359.48
298.00
**3,560.82**
164.00
**164.00**
**3,396.82**|184.60
635.64
91.77
440.86
**1,352.87**
285.00
**285.00**
**1,067.87**|186.49
28.39
76.28
35.31
152.34
**478.81**
350.48
60.00
**410.48**
**68.33**|338.07
364.83
17.24
**720.14**
487.45
**487.45**
**232.69**| ## **Notes:** 1. Provision for Capital funds like membership fund etc., is not shown in the above statement 2. In the financial years 2017,2018 and 2019 an amount of INR 100,000,000 had been received as grant for conducting of International Vedic Mathematics Conference form Tata Trusts. The amount not expended for the purposed of the same has to be paid back to Tata Trusts. Hence the amounts and its related expenditure is not included in the above statement. 3. The consolidated amounts shown in the above statement is drawn for reference purpose only and use the currency exchange rate as of 15th january of that particualar year. Hence the cumulated amount will not be the same as the fund balance held as on the end of any year. To ascertain the actual balances of funds held by IAVM, please refer to the financial statements of that particular year. P r e a r e d b : p y G o w r i R a m a c h a n d r a n T r u s t e e – C F O I AV M