About the BookAbout the Author

Teaching basic operations: Classroom ideas for mathematical thinking and problem-solving.

Rajendran Thamarapura is the Founder-Director of Qrius Learning Initiatives based in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. His focus is on constructivist pedagogy with emphasis on problem-solving. For more than three decades, he has been involved in teaching and teacher training at the primary level and developed teacher training modules to conduct state-level workshops for teachers. He has been a resource person for the education departments of the Governments of Kerala and Tamil Nadu and was a consultant for the Government of Bangladesh and advised schools in Malaysia. In 2018, he was a participant in an international conference in Finland for 100 innovators in education. He works closely with Orient BlackSwan to empower educators across the country.