What is Vedic Mathematics?

• Vedic period begin around 1500 BC and ended after 500 BC

• Vedas (Books of Knowledge) are the most sacred Hindu Scriptures

• Atharvaveda – supposedly contains a set of sixteen sutras that describe all of mathematics

• Sutra is often translated word formula and is short and easily memorized and recited

• Vedic Mathematics is a system of mathematics based on these sixteen sutras