According to the CBSE, mathematics needs to be treated both as a pure as well as an applied science as several areas of applied mathematics have merged with related traditions outside of mathematics and become disciplines in their own right, including statistics, operations research and computer science. Keeping this in view, the CBSE is promoting the math lab activities in schools.

Also, the view that mathematics can be linked to art forms to include those in its learning who have a definite aesthetic sense. Hence, many mathematicians talk about the elegance of mathematics, its intrinsic aesthetics, inner beauty, simplicity and generality.

CBSE in its document says that the most of the mathematical notation in use today was invented in the 18th century and the language of mathematics is extremely compressed: a few symbols contain a great deal of information. Like musical notation, modern mathematical notation has a strict syntax and encodes information that would be difficult to write in any other way.

My personal opinion is that there should be proper link between the mathematical language and its notation otherwise it can also be hard for beginners. While mathematics is a learning experience in the classroom, the teacher must create a table on the blackboard with the columns “What we say?” and “What we write in symbols?”

As a CBSE document puts it, “Words such as or and only have more precise meanings than in everyday speech. Additionally, words such as open and field have been given specialised mathematical meanings. Mathematics requires more precision than everyday speech. Mathematicians refer to this precision of language and logic as rigour.