The most fascinating of all knowledge and the most phobia generating subject is Mathematics. It is the improper introduction of maths that leaves many children with a lifelong aversion for the subject. Maths is often very poorly taught by us teachers, who themselves don’t have a strong passion or a deep appreciation for it. Most of us focus on and cater to the question “What”? and by doing so we conveniently avoid and ignore the fundamental question which is “WHY”? Also, the books in mathematics are generally written from the mathematician’s perspective. The beauty and spirit of mathematics are indeed in its freedom and abstraction but a child at an early age isn’t expected to understand it. Often, which is almost always, it is left to the students to comprehend the real-life applications of mathematics and somehow find beauty and joy in it, on their own. In words of acclaimed Indian mathematician, Shakuntala Devi students abhor maths because of the wrong approach and because it is looked as a subject. The intimidating, imagination less, uninteresting computation exercises and formula-based learning that go by the name of math is a horrible experience for the students. And when they struggle, they begin to dread math, and eventually, we lose thousands of students who could be the scientists and engineers of tomorrow. If we reflect and take more time to ground them in the basics, we can turn them on to maths.