Dinasim Learning: Making students fall in love with maths

For a country that churns out the world's largest number of engineers every year it is astoundingly tough to find school students who love mathematics.

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According to 24 year old Divesh Bathija, the fault lies with their education system that focuses the attention of children on attaining high marks and not necessarily understanding the concepts and Bathija is on a mission to change that.
Founded in 2012 his venture Dinasim Learning combines the much feared subject with games and activities and have already trained over 6000 students. Here is how Divesh is removing the phobia around math.
With a single minded mission to re-approach the crucial but much feared subject of mathematics with fun Divesh Bathija founded Dinasim Learning in 2012.
Dinasim helps students view math from a concept point of view rather than a mechanical score perspective. In order to achieve its mission, it employees exciting games and activities in its workshops that takes place at individual, group and school level. While games like Angry Birds help students learn decimals, soccer equips students to calculate percentages in a fun way.
Targeting students from grade five to 10, Dinasim Learning has trained over 6000 children and is now looking at hitting a turnover of Rs 25 lakh by year-end.
Divesh Bathija, founder and director, Dinasim Learning says “We have made it easy for schools, we have kept both the options open wherein we say either you want to charge per student or you want to charge per visit.
Depending on that if it is a per visit, if it is within Mumbai, outside Mumbai roughly we are anyway between Rs 12,000-20,000 for a visit wherein we spend six hours in a school which is a lot of time and train the children during that time.
Every hour we do a different session so there are six sessions conducted in one go. If it is outside Mumbai then the figure may go little higher because the travel cost has to be incorporated. If it is a per student model also then the fee comes pretty lower, it goes as low as Rs 1000 for a child for a year which is not even Rs 100 a month and that helps them to not feel the pinch of it but at the same time we can reach out to more number of students. So, this is precisely how we help to reach out to more number of students.
Making math fun in a totally different way, Divesh claims that by seeking the element of popular sport like cricket he is not only making students practice math by calculating scores but he is also bringing students back on the playground, a feature he believes his online competitors lack.
After tasting success with schools in Mumbai, Thane and the Scindia School in Gwalior Divesh now wants to take Dinasim pan India and is exploring modules for class 11 and class 12.
Conducting over 50 hours of training a month Divesh hopes to double the number in the next six months as he plans to double his trainers as well.