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PROFILE
Madhvi Kedia teaches Mathematics in New Delhi’s
prestigious Bluebells International School.
She did her schooling from Summer Fields
School, New Delhi in 1983 and completed her
BSc from Lady Irwin College, Delhi University.
She did her BEd also from Delhi University.
Ms Kedia has more than 20 years of teaching
experience in many different cities and towns
owing primarily to her husband’s transferable
job. She began teaching in 1987 in Delhi at
South Town School, an affiliate of Manavsthali
School after which she moved to Mumbai and
taught at Gyan Kendra Higher Secondary School,
Andheri West, Mumbai for the academic session
1993-94. She returned to Delhi and taught
at Ryan International School for five years.
She went to Mohal in Kullu district in Himachal
Pradesh where she taught at Trinity School
before joining Bluebells International in
Delhi in 2002 where she has been teaching
ever since.
Ms Kedia has been teaching Science and Mathematics
although it is the latter which is her area
of specialisation. She is sensitive to the
fears and disinclination students often feel
tackling a subject like Mathematics.
“It is when Mathematics is introduced
only as concepts which need to be drilled
that children often feel bored and slowly
lose interest,” she says adding that
these concepts should be taught by relating
them to everyday life through stories and
fun activities which would not only help students
retain them in a better way and also ignite
a passion for the subject.
Ms Kedia has been assiduously working with
‘normal’ students as also slow
learners and children with
learning disabilities. It is the latter which
has taken over her attention lately. To equip
herself with skills to understand them better,
she has enrolled herself in a course in Applied
Psychology for which she is currently on a
study leave for a year.
Ms Kedia is a thorough professional but she
is a homemaker no less. In fact cooking, gardening
and doing household chores are ways she loves
to involve herself with when she is not devising
ways to have fun with numbers.
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