Shakuntala Devi
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"Teaching your child is important. Teaching your child to think is more important. Thinking is not information or knowledge or being right. Thinking is the skill which unlocks the potential within. It is the essential difference that separates winners and achievers from others.This book will help you - the caring parent - combine the unique knowledge of your child's personality with the latest research on how children learn at each age, to enable you ...
Teaching your child is important. Teaching your child to think is more important. This book will help you - the caring parent - combine the unique knowledge of your child's personality with the latest research on how children learn at each stage. Mathability is a skill that teaches a child how to think. Mathability is a skill that develops the inherent intelligence potential. It enhances problem solving abilities and analytical focus. The methods and the ...
The kind of human behaviour is manifested by the members of a society, goes to determine to a great extent the level of development of a particular society. How particular society. How particular social groups, like the labour, the farmer, the student, the bureaucrat the teacher, the politician and the prist behave in particular situations, goes to reflect the social dynamics of a society. This book meets the need of college students who are studying social ...
The adventures of an engaging and talented child, Neha, in the Wonderland of Numbers is a fine way to introduce children to the concept of maths as fun activity. The specialities of each individual number, from zero to nine, and the little mathematical tricks as shown by Shakuntala Devi, all combine to make the reader learn to befriend numbers and excel at mathes. Numbers are not symbols to be written on the blackboard, They are the doorway to the world of ...
Social anthropology is an interesting subject based on studies in cultures. Anthropologists have found that certain social groups like tribes, peasants, landless labour as isolated social groups have maintained their separate identity and they possess potentialities of providing information to other social groups which can prove to be of formidable value to them and to the society at large. This book has tried to give information about Indian conditions. The ...
It is a well known fact that most of the labour force both for agriculture and industry is supplied by the villages which comprise the 80% of Indian population. Both the organized and the unorganized labour force comes from the rural sector. It was mostly ignored so far. But the organized labour force which works in the industrial sector, is mainly located in the urban areas. The unorganized labour force which mainly works in agriculture deserves the attention ...
In most of the developing countries, after the collapse of imperialism, the national Governments had embarked on developmental planning both for the urban as well as the rural sectors. The process of planning had fixed priorities for sectoral development in a time framework. In this planning process, education, health and small scale industries, acquired top priorities. The government of India had constituted a planning commission for the planned development of ...
Environmental considerations are vital to all the schemes of rural development. The factors like desertification, deforestation, soil erosion and global warning are all affecting the strategies and methods of rural development to a great extent. The mining operations in some areas have affected the lives of rural people very social development politicies and strategies of rural development are closely linked to environment.
Using day -to-day experiences and examples, this book shows how, with parental guidance, and supported with practical exercises and activities, your child can become an achiever. Written in a simple, lucid style, this book is almost an across- the- table conversation with a caring parent. Also it will help you combine the unique knowledge of your child's personality with the latest research on how children learn at each age, to enable you help your child ...
In this book I have provided various guidelines to bring Astrology within the easy grasp of the layman. I have explained in this book the main principles of drawing up the birth charts according to the Indian system as well as the Western system, to appraise the birth charts as well as to judge timings of events on the basis of planetary periods and sub-periods, and transists. I have tried to present, in this book, authentic Astrological information, and its ...
Shakuntala Devi, the Human Computer, explains and simplifies everything you always wanted to know about numbers but was difficult to understand. We can't live without numbers. We need them in our daily chores, big and small. But we carry in us a certain fear of numbers and are never confident about using them. Shakuntala Devi, the internationally famous mathematical wizard, makes it both easy and interesting for us. This book contains all we ever wanted to know ...
Discover the adventure and excitement of mathematical puzzles! Match your wits with the human computer!! Sharpen your intellect, delight your friends and enjoy hours of purposeful entertainment!!! Mathematics is not always hard, mind-boggling stuff. It can also be simple, delightful and interesting. Many famous mathematicians are known to be devoted to peg jumping puzzles. It is perhaps this kind of play that leads to scientific discoveries. The celebrity author, ...
There is a range and richness to numbers. They can come alive, cease to be symbols written on a black board, and lead the reader into a world of intellectual adventure where calculations are thrilling. In Figuring: The Joy of Numbers, Shakuntala Devi dramatizes the endless fascination of numbers and their ability to amaze and entertain. She offers easy-to-learn short cuts on how to add long columns in your head, multiply, divide, and find square roots quickly, ...
Here are over 300 tantalizing puzzles, brain teasers and riddles by one of the greatest mathematical geniuses of the twentieth century, Shakuntala Devi, popularly known as the 'human computer'. The puzzles include every possible type of mathematical recreation, time and distance problems, age and money riddles, puzzles involving geometry and elementary algebra, and just plain straight thinking. Often entertaining, but always stimulating, the puzzles included in ...
Your child's achieving attitude begins with you. Teaching your child is important. Teaching your child to think is more important. Thinking is not information or knowledge or being right. Thinking is the skill which unlocks the potential within. It is the essential difference that separates winners and achievers from others. This book will help you - the caring parent - combine the unique knowledge of your child's personality with the latest research on how ...