Pyramids, represent ancient history of several civilizations of our ancestors, which are even stand tall today. There are many facts and figures and mysteries to be learn about these monuments. I would like to elaborate on few of these.
We all know about #pyramids of Egypt, most famous are pyramids of Giza. However, there are pyramids all over the world, in China, in Peru, in Greece, in India. Why they were common in those ancient civilizations?
Why pyramids?
Truth is, they are even found in modern world, not as common as in the past, as we have changed our construction methods from piling up bricks to concrete, iron and metal reinforced materials. We can build tall structures without a wide base so; they often represent rectangular prisms nowadays than pyramids. So, pyramids were the obvious norm without such technology, for tall structures. Even today, the world's tallest Building Burj Khalifa in EAU, has some form of pyramid in its overall shape.
Archeologists, historians and scientists still in search how these giant pyramids were built in the past, as it seems, carrying tons of weight up to even top of pyramids is unimaginable task without huge cranes and diesel-powered mammoth engines. Obviously, pyramids were built from bottom to top. Even in today tower construction starts from bottom to top; however, finishing is done from top to bottom. Otherwise, it would be a mess.
Functional pyramids
If we deviate from structural pyramids, we will see out there are some functional pyramids of our own specialty. In science, pyramids are used to represent different concepts. We may learn about, ecological pyramids, food pyramids for nutrition, Maslow's hierarchy of needs in Psychology, Blooms taxonomy in #learning, population pyramids and many more. After all it may be a triangular shape that we are looking at, but the idea is its three dimensional. While the bottom of the pyramid represents, larger volume and basic, top represents lesser in volume and more advanced.
Blooms taxonomy
Here, I would elaborate Blooms taxonomy from the perspective of a pyramid. Blooms taxonomy states that there are levels of knowledge that we can acquire. In the bottom of the pyramid, is represented by Knowlege and comprehension, (memorizing and understanding) Middle levels are represented by Application and analysis (problem solving, comparison etc.). The higher order thinking or the top of the pyramid is represented by the Synthesis and evaluation (making connections, grouping together and hypothesizing)
Lower order thinking - Knowlege and comprehension, (memorizing and understanding)
Mid order thinking - Application and analysis ( problem solving, comparison etc)
Higer order thinking - Synthesis and evaluation (making connections, grouping together and hypothesizing)
Message:
If you are a learner, and if you want to excellence in your field, obviously you would need to be on top of your bloom's taxonomy rather than the bottom. As it represents more deep understanding of the subject. However, if we look at the construction of a pyramid analogy, we cannot do the top without doing the bottom. Or is it true?
If you spend time in trying to understand connections in your knowledge and concepts that already exist to hypothesize, the bottom steps will follow automatically from our brain.
If you have followed the arguments in this post, what I have exactly done is that. I have hypothesized, analyzed pyramids and the knowledge about them and made a connection between pyramids of other areas, not only the shape, but the construction process etc. There are many materials in internet that would teach us about blooms taxonomy application which can refine our process of thinking. Good luck hunting them!
Thank you for reading : Pyramids, Oh mighty pyramids- Lessons from Blooms taxonomy
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