The Vinculum method is the constructive approach of application of negative numbers.The world of integers when introduced to the students for the first time, the idea of attaching signs to the number and applying operations of numbers with its sign becomes a big task for them.
Everyday number line gets extended from negative to infinity suddenly becomes aleian to them.The task of operations on integers , if not guided properly, students start to dis-like the negative numbers. The negativity around negative numbers creates hurdle in learning maths with stress free approach. Here the concept of vinculum creates condsive environment to make friendship with negative numbers. Vinculum once introduced, makes their life easy for doing carry-forward free addition and stress free subtraction. Nikhilum multiplication will become the oral task and negative numbers rather than ‘numbers with bars’ become a tool for easy calculations.
The story of a mother: just like a shopping crazy mother leaves her baby in the push chair is impossible logically same way one cannot ignore the sign of the number when doing arithmetic or algebraic operations.
Also the knowledge and specificity of numbers is impossible without sign just like finding a specific person without the knowledge of his or her complete name.
The application of vinculum removes the mental block of it’s abstractness felt and rules the world of numbers with graceful tactics.
The beauty of its application appreciated by students and the simplicity makes vedic vinculum most aesthetic tool of vedic mathematics.
Approaches of negative numbers:
1) negative numbers associated with left and right
2) clockwise , anti-clockwise
3) positive,negative electric poles
4) cations and anoions
5)loss and profit, negative profit= loss
6) underground floors, negative numbering
7) optical scale of measuring focal length
8)magnitude of a stars, brightest star will have negative magnitude, more negative magnitude the star is more brighter
9)In arts ,the painting brush numbering has negative numbers, more negative more thin and finer the paint brush is
10) temperature sacle is well adjusted to negative numbers
11)magnetic poles are positive and negative
All these perspective are used in modern world to categorize the two opposite
