Learning what is considered one of the most dreaded subjects, Mathematics, in your mother tongue and through interactive games — this was Prajakta Mahajan’s (in pic) vision when she started the website www.thefreemath.org, to help students understand the subject. “The aim of the website is to digitise the subject and make it easily accessible and comprehensive so that it can be easily learnt in the remotest villages as well,” said the city-based software engineer.

Making learning fun: Prajakta started the website to guide students in Math using Marathi and has recently included interactive games to help students learn as they play

Prajakta (42) started the website to guide students in Math using Marathi, about two years back, and she recently included interactive games to help students learn as they play. “I use Indian examples to explain problems that will help students relate to the questions. While there are many websites that teach Math, most of them are in English and the tutor in the video talks in English with an American accent, which most times is not understood by Indian students. Therefore, I decided to use colloquial language and day-to-day objects as examples to make it simple,” said Prajakta. She added that the mantra of the website is that every kid deserves quality education and that Math is more about attitude than ability.