Origin
PODOMETIC ZERO FEAR MATHS Year 2100

Jonathan J. Crabtree

The K–8 maths maverick

An elementary mathematics historian who pulled a loose thread at age seven and spent the next decades restoring the lost logic of India’s zero.

In 1968, in Melbourne, a seven-year-old noticed that the explanations did not match the things they claimed to explain.

In 1983 he set out to change the way the Western world teaches mathematics. The work that followed is Podometic™ Bharatiya Mathematics: India’s zero-based upgrade of British arithmetic.

Age of first doubt
7 · 1968
Research begins
1983
Languages of the audit
16
Classroom span
K–8

research@jonathancrabtree.com