The government authorities say pass rate in SEE is too low due to mathematics and so math should not be made compulsory in higher grades. This is an ill logic.

She was 17. Her name was Laxmi. She was working as a maid at my neighbor’s house. I first met her when my neighbor had brought her for tuitions as she had failed in her SLC. They wanted me to guide her for her supplement exams. At first, I was reluctant to tutor her as she had studied in village, that also in Nepali medium. I thought I would not be able to teach her like I was taught in Kathmandu. But it was her persistence that forced me to give it a go.

Can anybody solve the word ‘math’? I’m bore. It seems there’s no work, except banging my head on floor. Listening to the word ‘math’, it makes me mad, But also, being no able to do anything, I’m too glad.

Neither will the central government agree to downsize, as local units want, nor will local governments be self-reliant on funds, at least in the foreseeable future

PARIS, France: An Anglo-American trio presented the prize-winning solution to a 35-year old maths problem on Friday, but verifying it may be a problem in itself: reading it would take 10 billion years.