DIAGNOSIS IN MATHS LEARNING Mathematics teacher enters class 8, with full enthusiasm to start the chapter square and square roots. According to the teacher or as per the syllabus of the previous class, the prerequisite for this chapter would be prime and composite numbers, prime factorization etc etc. But when actual teaching starts, she realizes that there are few students who have problems with basic operations, so they get stuck with the first method of calculating square root by repeated subtraction method. Similarly for division. Now it's diagnosed, it must be treated, though it is late. Now the question arises why was it not noticed by teachers of earlier grades? Neither teachers nor parents took any step for this! Why? If it all, it was observed, then must be informed to the next grade teacher and should have insisted her to continue with the remedial ! Due to this gap, the children are just physically present in the class. We go on blaming each other or the system but
