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No Calculator? No Problem! Mastering Mental Math , award-winning professor of mathematics and celebrated “mathemagician” Arthur T. Benjamin delivers 10 fun-filled lessons on how to do math in your head with confidence, accuracy, and speed - sometimes faster than a calculator. By the end of Professor Benjamin’s lessons, you’ll be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers faster than ever before. And with your newfound skills, you’ll soon find yourself amazing other people and, perhaps more important, yourself.

Combining the dietary recommendations in his bestselling Genius Foods and the lifestyle recommendations of The Genius Life, Genius Kitchen features shockingly delicious, nutrient-packed recipes that will energize your mind, strengthen your body, and pave a path to health that you’ll feel with...

Why do some leaders double their team’s effectiveness, while others seem to drain the energy right out of the room? Using insights gained from more than 100 interviews with school leaders, this book pinpoints the five disciplines that define how Multipliers bring out the best across their schools.

One hundred and ten years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised a very different method of educating children, based on her observations of how they naturally learn. In Montessori, Angeline Stoll Lillard shows that science has finally caught up with Maria Montessori. Lillard presents the research behind nine insights that are foundations of Montessori education, describing how each of these insights is applied in the Montessori classroom.

Learn the six ways to create health, happiness, and almost everything else in your life. On this powerful audio program, the authors share their knowledge of the relationship between emotional intuition and the physical body. Their discussions include the seven emotional centers (chakras), what...

In Mind in Motion, psychologist Barbara Tversky shows that spatial cognition isn't just a peripheral aspect of thought, but its very foundation, enabling us to draw meaning from our bodies and their actions in the world. Our actions in real space get turned into mental actions on thought, often spouting spontaneously from our bodies as gestures. Spatial thinking underlies creating and using maps, assembling furniture, devising football strategies, designing airports, understanding the flow of people, traffic, water, and ideas.

Dr. Gholdy E. Muhammad presents a four-layered equity framework—one that is grounded in history and restores excellence in literacy education. This framework, which she names Historically Responsive Literacy, was derived from the study of literacy development within 19th-century Black literacy societies. The framework is essential and universal for all students, especially youth of color, who traditionally have been marginalized in learning standards, school policies, and classroom practices.

Each episode delivers one powerful idea, quote, or mental model explained simply—then challenges the listener to apply it that day.

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In Ungifted, cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman - who was relegated to special education as a child - sets out to show that the way we interpret traditional metrics of intelligence is misguided. Kaufman explores the latest research in genetics and neuroscience, as well as evolutionary, developmental, social, positive, and cognitive psychology, to challenge the conventional wisdom about the childhood predictors of adult success. He reveals that there are many paths to greatness, and argues for a more holistic approach to achievement that takes into account each young person’s personal goals, individual psychology, and developmental trajectory.

In this audiobook, you will discover how to stop your dog from biting, howling and barking and being aggressive. You will learn the different ways of dealing with the unacceptable behaviors of your dog. It will teach you tricks and useful tips on how to effectively train your dog and stop any behavior problems it may have.

In this follow-up to Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad adds a fifth pursuit—joy—to her groundbreaking instructional model. She defines joy as more than celebration and happiness, but also as wellness, beauty, healing, and justice for oneself and across humanity. She shows how teaching from cultural and historical realities can enhance our efforts to cultivate identity, skills, intellect, criticality, and—indeed—joy for all students, giving them a powerful purpose to learn and contribute to the world.

The most important and useful phrases to communicate in English! This audio course really helps you with learning English. You will learn how to ask questions and to speak with people in any situation and find out the usage of everyday common phrases.

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John Taylor Gatto wurde mehrfach zum 'Lehrer des Jahres' New York gekrönt und mit Preisen für seinen außergewöhnlich guten Unterricht ausgezeichnet - doch er selbst zieht ein anderes Fazit. Die deutsche Erstausgabe des US-Titels 'Dumbing Us Down - the Hidden Curriculum od Compulsory Schooling', der sich in den USA hunderttausendfach verkauft und die US-Bildungsdiskussion der letzten Jahre entscheidend geprägt hat.

From science and technology to business and education, curiosity is often taken for granted as an unquestioned good. And yet, few people can define curiosity. Curiosity Studies marshals scholars from more than a dozen fields not only to define curiosity but also to grapple with its ethics as well as its role in technological advancement and global citizenship. While intriguing research on curiosity has occurred in numerous disciplines for decades, no rigorously cross - disciplinary study has existed - until now.

Usa l’inconscio per imparare durante il sonno. Da sempre gli studenti sanno benissimo che, per raggiungere risultati soddisfa-centi, devono lavorare duramente, e indugiano con fatica sui libri sino a notte inoltrata.Con il metodo creato da David Curtis è possibile essere altrettanto recettivi sen-za faticare: ci si può, letteralmente, “dormire sopra” e imparare più velocemente e più a fondo rispetto alle tecniche tradizionali.

Tre tecniche per migliorare il tuo apprendimento delle lingue. Qui hai a disposizione tre metodi pratici, tre tecniche appositamente create per rafforzare la tua memoria quando apprendi una nuova lingua. In particolare, imparerai a memorizzare e a recuperare senza sforzo parole ed espressioni della lingua che desideri apprendere. Questo ti aiuta a migliorare sia la tua comprensione sia la tua capacità di farti capire quando parli o scrivi.

Con queste tecniche guidate imparerai a velocizzare e semplificare la lettura e anche a migliorare la capacità di studio. Sono strumenti semplici e di immediata esecuzione, utili sia per chi studia sia per chi lavora. Hanno lo scopo di velocizzare la lettura e l'apprendimento: ripetendole frequentemente ottimizzerai i tempi di studio e lavoro e avrai più tempo libero per te.