Balachandar. V, Founder, Mentor
Director, Prodigy Academy
PRODIGY ACADEMY, established with a passion to
empower students and to make them prodigies, as “Child Prodigies are
made, not born.”
We provide countless activities
designed to empower and enrich life at our Academy, taking knowledge and
leadership beyond classrooms.
Besides encouraging everyone’s
participation simultaneously, they can hone their competitive skills, find
their inner Zen, and feed their inner artist.
Our academy is the perfect example
of how fun facilitates education.
We train and provide business
opportunities to Individuals and franchisees.
- Uniquely mentored Courses
- Distinctive 5PP Education system
- Individual Student Attention
- Prolific learning
- Flexible timings as per student convenience
The skill of mental computation is a
handy, applicable asset that helps students move away from the mechanical, rote
method of solving problems. Instead, students learn the principles behind
mathematics, understand around 26 new ways to think about the number system and
number relationships, and it leads to easy understanding of any question and
solving it in a Jiffy.
Mental calculation lays the
foundation for the development of higher-order thinking skills for students who
can acquire these skills at an early age.
This simple method of learning is
imparted to students by the use of abacus technology, wherein basic
mathematical operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and
division are solved by the simple movement of beads in this mathematical tool.
This helps the student to develop a
pictorial representation of the problem in the brain, and by regular practice,
the brain learns to solve the problem free from any tool, including the abacus.
The students thereby develop an absolute photographic memory.
"The science that draws
necessary and ideal conclusions, which deals with the logic of shape, quantity,
and arrangements. “Arithmetic" is everywhere, and it is all around us.
Mathematical concepts are an integral part of our lives, as we carefully
endeavour to carry out everything "calculatedly."
At Prodigy Academy, we focus on the
Application of Basic Mathematical Formulae by creating an impact on Students'
Attention, Memory, and Higher Order Cognition (HOC). We believe creating and
possessing a multi-faceted talent and developing complex areas of thinking is
close-knit to our most common mental processes of reasoning, decision-making,
and logically sound and proactive creativity.
Our focus on Mathematical Concept
Learning is made very simple by converting ordinary ideas or notions that
commonly occur in all our minds to making it a reality. We measure every
student’s progress, starting from their basics of UNDERSTANDING Mathematical
concepts to a much higher degree of competency, by applying such Concepts to
real-life situations.
Our delivery is based on
three-pronged key areas that lay a firm foundation for finding solutions to
problems countered in our everyday lives. Number One - "Attention
Skills—seal students to maintain a steady focus on the intricacies of
Mathematical concepts. Number Two - "Memory Skills"- Upgrade
Students' minds to store and retrieve those already existing and intrinsic
concepts in their minds, to exploring, expanding, augmenting, and strengthening
new concepts for all good practical reasons in the future. Number Three -
"Applying Higher Order Cognition" - Forges
"Attention" and "Memory" Skills together, to
"Applying" them to real-life situations to go beyond much greater
heights, surpassing their own expectations in life. Thus, the importance of
learning Mathematical Concepts becomes a pathway to problem-solving skills in
their own minds, which are ultimately exhibited as ground reality experiences.
Learning Mathematical concepts in
our everyday lives empowers all our Societies from "Solving" every
little simple problem to much more complex issues successfully. As we all have
a good legitimate reason to be honourable citizens in life, we all need to know
how to reason and think analytically to solve problems in our everyday lives.
In short, acquiring and possessing Mathematical Concepts strengthens our minds
to find solutions in a most sophisticated and logical way to becoming a hall of
fame.
Importance of Perseverance in
Achieving Your Goals and Dreams
Our ability to pursue a passionate
goal and stick to it even if we encounter obstacles or setbacks is a trait that
has been lauded throughout history as it fuels personal growth, ignites the
desire to excel, and paves the way to accomplishments. Perseverance is the
driving force that distinguishes between those who achieve and those who fail.
Perseverance also plays a major role
in personal growth. When we persevere through challenges, we naturally develop
resilience and strength, and more importantly, we learn from our failures,
modify our strategies, and emerge stronger, both mentally and emotionally!
perseverance also amplifies ambition and fuels the pursuit of excellence.
Various studies have shown that
perseverance is an essential quality for success in life. JK Rowling, author of
the Harry Potter series, faced rejection by numerous agents and publishers
before tasting success. Thomas Edison said I have not failed; I’ve just
found 10,000 ways to make a lightbulb that won’t work. Walt Disney was told
his passionate Mickey Mouse would fail by Hollywood initially. Henry Ford had
gone bankrupt before he turned Ford Motor Company into a success.
Tips to Overcome Procrastination
Excessive procrastination can
disrupt your life and cause you to lose control of your schedules and
deadlines. One way to stop procrastinating is to break down the dreaded task
into little steps. If a task seems too big or overwhelming, break it down into
a series of smaller, more achievable tasks or steps that will add up to
completing the job.
- “Someday is not a day of the week.” – Janet
Dailey
- “A year from now you may wish you had started
today.” – Karen Lamb
- “You may delay, but time will not.” - Benjamin
Franklin
- “If you wait until the last minute, it only takes
a minute to do.”— The Stock—Sanford corollary
- “Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come
from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they
started.”— Attributed to David Allen
- “Procrastination is the enemy of success.”
- “Procrastination is the grave in which
opportunity is buried.”
Skill Development vs. Knowledge or
Learning for Success
When it comes to learning, we’ve all
heard the statistics that people forget up to 90%.
Skill development is the act of
teaching a person a particular skill, or skills, needed for a job or role. It’s
geared towards training a person in something specific, usually
over a limited or defined period of time or till they get trained and competent
enough to perform. Your goal with any training is to impact learners’
behaviour. So you want to ensure your strategy helps bridge the gap between
knowing and doing.
Knowledge is theoretical. It’s an
intellectual understanding of information, knowing the right answers. Skills
are practical. They are the actions people take to put their knowledge into
practice.
When you treat training as just a
box to tick, you risk focusing only on knowledge transfer, and that can hurt
your overall company goals. This is why understanding knowledge vs. skill is
important. You need to ensure people can move from knowing to doing. Perseverance
plays a major role here, changing habits takes time.
When you divide the learning up into
short, single-topic lessons (micro learning), you’ll make it easier for people
to remember the skills or easy to inculcate the habit of doing.
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