The Aptitude Myth addresses the decline in American children’s mastery of critical school subjects. It contends that a contributing cause for this decline derives from many Americans’ ways of thinking about children’s learning: They believe that school performance is determined very largely by innate aptitude.
A New York Times–bestselling author looks at mathematics education in America—when it’s worthwhile, and when it’s not. Why do we inflict a full menu of mathematics—algebra, geometry, trigonometry, even calculus—on all young Americans, regardless of their interests or aptitudes? While Andrew Hacker has been a professor of mathematics himself, and extols the glories of the subject, he also questions some widely held assumptions in this thought-provoking and practical-minded book. Does advanced math really broaden our minds? Is mastery of azimuths and asymptotes needed for success in most jobs? Should the entire Common Core syllabus be required of every student? Hacker worries that our nation’s current frenzied emphasis on STEM is diverting attention from other pursuits and even subverting the spirit of the country. Here, he shows how mandating math for everyone prevents other talents from being developed and acts as an irrational barrier to graduation and careers. He proposes alternatives, including teaching facility with figures, quantitative reasoning, and understanding statistics. Expanding upon the author’s viral New York Times op-ed, The Math Myth is sure to spark a heated and needed national conversation—not just about mathematics but about the kind of people and society we want to be. “Hacker’s accessible arguments offer plenty to think about and should serve as a clarion call to students, parents, and educators who decry the one-size-fits-all approach to schooling.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Joseph Campbell advised everyone to live authentically by following our bliss, but how many of us do? Somewhere along the way, we lose sight of our aims. We forget the myths that guide us and end up lost in the dark. This book is a light in that darkness, a guide to our own natural talents, aptitudes and potential. With Astrology and Aptitude you will: Explore abilities related to the planets, signs and houses. Discover over 30 minor asteroids linked to career and creativity. Follow practical delineations and chart examples. Learn about talents hidden in the fixed stars, Vertex and Aries Point. Become the person you are most capable of being. Focusing on the symbolic meaning of the signs, houses, planetary aspects and transits, this book describes ways to identify and boost the natural modes of expression, bringing them out into the open. Included are delineations of asteroid gods and goddesses, fixed stars, Arabic parts, the Vertex, Aries Point, midpoints and Lunar Nodes. Also included is a reference guide to vocational rulerships and a comprehensive index. Astrology and Aptitude is a must read for everyone serious about becoming everything they can possibly be, and supporting others to do the same.
Part devastating expos, part savvy test guide, "None of the Above" demystifies the development of the SAT and offers practical strategies on how to beat the test.
50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology uses popular myths as a vehicle for helping students and laypersons to distinguish science from pseudoscience. Uses common myths as a vehicle for exploring how to distinguish factual from fictional claims in popular psychology Explores topics that readers will relate to, but often misunderstand, such as 'opposites attract', 'people use only 10% of their brains', and 'handwriting reveals your personality' Provides a 'mythbusting kit' for evaluating folk psychology claims in everyday life Teaches essential critical thinking skills through detailed discussions of each myth Includes over 200 additional psychological myths for readers to explore Contains an Appendix of useful Web Sites for examining psychological myths Features a postscript of remarkable psychological findings that sound like myths but that are true Engaging and accessible writing style that appeals to students and lay readers alike
What is the explanation for American students’ comparatively mediocre academic performance? A Mirror for Americans finds part of it in how they are taught in primary schools. Comparisons with East Asian teaching are supplied by 50 years of research findings. Grove asks not that we copy East Asian teaching approaches, but that we use them as a mirror to gain insights into typically American approaches and their underlying values, which are handicapping our children’s learning.
This study of Hindu mythology explores the significance of the most prominent Hindu deities as they are envisioned by the Hindus themselves, Referred to by its adherents as the "eternal religion" Hinduism recognizes for each age and each country a new form of revelation-and for each person, according to his or her stage of development, a different path of realization. This message of tolerance and adaptability, the very heart of Hindu polytheism, resounds clearly throughout Alain Danielou's work. Photographic plates by Raymond Burnier further illustrate the many facets of Hindu teaching and grace the significance of the Gods of the Vedas, as well as Vishnu, Shiva, Brahma, Kali, Shakti, and other deities.
The idea of writing this book is MYTHOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY, and Science. Book for the New Generations. Volume I is about a slight breakthrough as an expansion project of Physics-values. As a bio-intelligent species, in general, we have the limitation of directly accessing the frame of objects and objectual items like matters, materials, and the Materialistic groups shaped from diversifying grades of energies as a unit-value sack-of-energy or their union as mass-state energy. Clinching and respecting the esteemed formula E = mc^2, which defined the equivalence relationship with deferentially shaped Mass-energy. And hailing the highest degree of intelligent scientist through whom Energy-God introduced this formula E=mc^2 as a complete hidden pack of all differential-values works of objects, keeping the position of E = Energy - God a universally constant in the Universe. I intend to place a new Idea about the birth of the Universe from the True-Singularity position of the Supreme - Universe. Besides, in the viewpoint of energy minimum way attempted to convince our position as bio-species in this adaptable nature surviving in support of bio-grade energy sources, somehow someway connected throughout the distant alien species in different Consmical - Universes, and even the Universe. The supreme energy, or say Pure-energy is an inexhaustible state cohesion represented with composites containments. Like energy - elements and intrinsical elemental - values that all are at inert-state in the Supreme - universe From the viewpoint of the object/s say, all the infinite numbers of diversifying properties of energy components like energy elements and their working essence as elemental-value in a unit-value pure-energy completely at an absolute null position in every aspect differential way justifying ideologies. Accordingly, an imaginable unit-value Pure-energy presumed as Absoluteness-status and the Supreme - Universe is State-of-Absoluteness. The Supreme - Universe is the creator of our Universe. So, the Universe is an offspring of the Supreme – universe, a great-great Grandmom of all objects and objectual-products persistently appearing and seemingly disappearing in the matured 2nd-energy-belt of the Universe. The Universe is restraining as an unconditional buoyant state with ever-fixedness at a particular spatial point in the crammed of pure - energies in the Supreme - Universe. A little elaboration about the hidden treasure of the highly respected formula E = mc^2: - The E=mc2 = mass * area to the power square = a framework of matter as energy-mass = energy components as a unit-value frame of the matter or material product that acknowledges by the bio-Intelligent system. Accordingly, if endeavor expands that idea entirely for the matured Universe and the observable and non-observable Cosmical-universes in the 2nd-energy-belt, it may widen the bio-earthly way of defining limited areas of physics and physics-value. By keeping the Energy or Energy-God as a Universal-Constant position including its components infinite amount of Energy elements intact. Like: - E = Energy = Energy-God Ξ “Unit/s of Sack-of-Energy containing with Energy – elements” + “Inherent essence of Elemental – values as a frame." Ξ “Objects and objectual-products may consider as mass-energy covered some areas under the flagship of Zero-status-stable position or predisposing-constancy”. Further, attempt to convince to equate with intellectually presented Physics and Physics-values by borrowing a mathematical symbol that is = and say: - (Energy-element) = (physics), and (elemental-value) = (physics-value). So, from the viewpoint of energy. All accessible and inaccessible works of energies and their progenies as object/s have equivalent relations throughout the matured 2nd-energy-belt.
