HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A mental math system developed in the 1800's is helping some local students ace standardized tests and win math competitions. But the method isn't taught in most Houston schools.

Rajesh Parikh hopes teaching the way of Vedic math will add up to big bucks for his company, Alpha Math Station. But he doesn't necessarily tout the source of the math shortcuts: Hindu scriptures ...

How does Vedic Math work? The Vedas, India's ancient scriptures, are the source of the ancient mathematical system known as Vedic mathematics. Vedic math puzzles demand analytical thinking, pattern ...

How does Vedic Math work? Vedic mathematics is an ancient Indian system of mathematics that originated from the Vedas, the ancient scriptures of India. Vedic math puzzles require individuals to think ...

Vedic Mathematics was written by a Hindu monk, Bharati Krishna Tirtha, and contains a series of 16 sutras (formulae) and 13 sub-sutras (corollaries). Over the years, there’s been a lot of brouhaha ...

A few days back, I was at a convention of schoolteachers of mathematics. One of the keynote addresses was delivered by a college professor on Vedic Mathematics and why it must be brought to use in a ...

The department of secondary education in the state of Haryana, India, plans to increase the number of schools teaching vedic mathematics. A pilot project was launched in 720 schools, and the ...

Shanaya Amernath is solving a worksheet of math problems. Some of the calculations involve several digits, exponents and conversions to metrics. She completes the worksheet using mental math faster ...