Vedic Addition

 Vikram Devatha has been a high school teacher for 5 years at Future School, in the international community of Auroville, in south India. A business graduate from the Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane, Australia), he worked in a silk business for 7 years before deciding to take up teaching as a profession in 2003. Since then, he has studied and taught Vedic Math, and researched new techniques that help to simplify Mathematics for the layman. He has taught Vedic Mathematics to high school students, primarily in the 14 to 18 years age group. He has also given public demonstrations and conducted workshops both home and abroad, Vikram has also studied some sections central to the Vedas in depth in a 2 year diploma course at the Bharathiya Vidya Bhawan in Bangalore (south India), where he subsequently taught for 3 years in a part-­time role.