THE MENTOR
About Me
I have spent a decade watching students who know every formula still fail to see what a problem is actually asking. That gap between knowledge and thinking. That is what the Indian School of Mathematics is built to solve.
I am Sameer Bhatele, B.Tech from IIT Madras, a life member of the Mathematics Teachers’ Association (India), governed by the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education — India’s national hub for Mathematics Olympiad training.
My MSc in Psychology shows me where a student’s reasoning actually breaks down, not just where the final answer goes wrong. That is what turns guesswork into clear, systematic problem solving.
THE PHILOSOPHY
Thoughts on Mathematics
Problem Solving is really just a path from question to answer.
Most coaching trains students to memorize formulas and shortcuts — pieces of that path, learned by heart. In a real exam, this shows up as confusion: which trick to use, and where. Real speed comes from visualizing the problem clearly first — as a diagram, a flowchart of steps, whatever makes its structure visible, before writing a single line. Once a problem is seen this clearly, the answer follows on its own, instead of being forced out through memorized steps.
THE SCHOOL
Indian School of Mathematics exists to train one thing: the thinking that high-level problem solving actually needs — not one more shortcut to memorize.
That training happens across several formats — free videos and weekly problems on our Telegram channel, a growing Problem Bank, and structured courses ranging from short crash programs to complete preparation tracks. Whatever the format, the goal stays the same: students learn to read a question carefully, notice what it’s really asking, and plan a path to the answer before touching any calculation. That is the same skill whether the problem is easy or hard, familiar or completely new — not a trick that works for one question and fails on the next.
