Table of Contents

1 Front Matter; 2 1 Introduction; 3 Part I HISTORY - 2 Putting Principles into Practice: Understanding History; 4 3 Putting Principles into Practice: Teaching and Planning; 5 4 They Thought the World Was Flat? Applying the Principles of How People Learn in Teaching High School History; 6 Part II MATHEMATICS- 5 Mathematical Understanding: An Introduction; 7 6 Fostering the Development of Whole-Number Sense: Teaching Mathematics in the Primary Grades; 8 7 Pipes, Tubes, and Beakers: New Approaches to Teaching the Rational-Number System; 9 8 Teaching and Learning Functions; 10 Part III SCIENCE - 9 Scientific Inquiry and How People Learn; 11 10 Teaching to Promote the Development of Scientific Knowledge and Reasoning About Light at the Elementary School Level; 12 11 Guided Inquiry in the Science Classroom; 13 12 Developing Understanding Through Model-Based Inquiry; 14 A FINAL SYNTHESIS: REVISITING THE THREE LEARNING PRINCIPLES - 13 Pulling Threads; 15 Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Contributors; 16 Index

About the Author

Committee on How People Learn, A Targeted Report for Teachers, Center for Studies on Behavior and Development, National Research Council