Note: In this post, Sukanya introduces what the skill of estimation is about and how she goes about helping children to develop this ability in her 5-hour course. The next edition of the course is linked here. During the first test of an atomic bomb on 16 July, 1945, merely three weeks before the real bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, one important question was the yield of the weapon. During the test, the Nobel-prize winning physicist Enrico Fermi, one of the leaders of the tea

What do we most wish for our children? If we are honest with our answers, probably it is something like for them to be happy in their lives. By happiness we may mean either a life full of comfort and pleasure or one that makes full use of our child’s potential and makes him / her a mature and resilient person. We all know, to some extent, that we cannot keep our kids sheltered indefinitely, and sooner or later they will meet the ‘real world’, warts and all. It is our hope, an