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Login | Register Items in cart [0] E-mail This How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom Status: Available Now Size: 632 pages, 7 x 10 Publication Year:2005 Print List Price HARDBACK ISBN-10: 0-309-07433-9 ISBN-13: 978-0-309-07433-9 $54.95 Add to Cart PDF About PDF Authors: Committee on How People Learn, A Targeted Report for Teachers, Center for Studies on Behavior and Development, National Research Council Authoring Organizations Description: How do you get a fourth-grader excited about history? How do you even begin to persuade high school students that mathematical functions are relevant to their everyday lives? In this volume, practical questions that confront every classroom teacher are ... Read More Reviews: "The authors provide detailed explanations of how they developed successful curricula and teaching approaches, with strategies that serve as models for curriculum development and classroom instruction. For teachers, administrators, curriculum designers, teacher educators, and parents." --BOOK NEWS, Inc. ... Read More Paste into your Web page: Preview Free Resources Read Full Text Jump to this book's table of contents to begin reading online for free. Related Items: Press Release Related Titles Research Tools Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager National Research Council. How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2005. Please select a format: Download Free PDF Summary Download the summary in PDF. Rights & Permissions Reprint Permission Request permission to license or reprint the book'scontent through Copyright Clearance Center's Rightslink. Request Permission toDistribute a PDF RequestTranslation Rights Questions About Rightsand Permissions? Table of Contents Select a link below to start reading online free! Front Matter i-xvi 1 Introduction 1-28 (skim) Part I HISTORY - 2 Putting Principles into Practice: Understanding History 29-78 (skim) 3 Putting Principles into Practice: Teaching and Planning 79-178 (skim) 4 They Thought the World Was Flat? Applying the Principles of How People Learn in Teaching High School History 179-214 (skim) Part II MATHEMATICS- 5 Mathematical Understanding: An Introduction 215-256 (skim) 6 Fostering the Development of Whole-Number Sense: Teaching Mathematics in the Primary Grades 257-308 (skim) 7 Pipes, Tubes, and Beakers: New Approaches to Teaching the Rational-Number System 309-350 (skim) 8 Teaching and Learning Functions 351-396 (skim) Part III SCIENCE - 9 Scientific Inquiry and How People Learn 397-420 (skim) 10 Teaching to Promote the Development of Scientific Knowledge and Reasoning About Light at the Elementary School Level 421-474 (skim) 11 Guided Inquiry in the Science Classroom 475-514 (skim) 12 Developing Understanding Through Model-Based Inquiry 515-566 (skim) A FINAL SYNTHESIS: REVISITING THE THREE LEARNING PRINCIPLES - 13 Pulling Threads 567-590 (skim) Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Contributors 591-596 (skim) Index 597-616 (skim) back to top Description How do you get a fourth-grader excited about history? How do you even begin to persuade high school students that mathematical functions are relevant to their everyday lives? In this volume, practical questions that confront every classroom teacher are addressed using the latest exciting research on cognition, teaching, and learning. How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom builds on the discoveries detailed in the bestselling How People Learn. Now, these findings are presented in a way that teachers can use immediately, to revitalize their work in the classroom for even greater effectiveness. Organized for utility, the book explores how the principles of learning can be applied in teaching history, science, and math topics at three levels: elementary, middle, and high school. Leading educators explain in detail how they developed successful curricula and teaching approaches, presenting strategies that serve as models for curriculum development and classroom instruction. Their recounting of personal teaching experiences lends strength and warmth to this volume. The book explores the importance of balancing students knowledge of historical fact against their understanding of concepts, such as change and cause, and their skills in assessing historical accounts. It discusses how to build straightforward science experiments into true understanding of scientific principles. And it shows how to overcome the difficulties in teaching math to generate real insight and reasoning in math students. It also features illustrated suggestions for classroom activities. How Students Learn offers a highly useful blend of principle and practice. It will be important not only to teachers, administrators, curriculum designers, and teacher educators, but also to parents and the larger community concerned about children s education. back to top Reviews "The authors provide detailed explanations of how they developed successful curricula and teaching approaches, with strategies that serve as models for curriculum development and classroom instruction. For teachers, administrators, curriculum designers, teacher educators, and parents." --BOOK NEWS, Inc. back to top Authoring Organizations Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences (BBCSS) Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE) back to top! Search This Book »Find more like this book SIGN UP FOR... New Title Emails Read about the newest releases and receive special offers. NOTES CD-ROM included in Hardback version. The three subject areas covered in the book are also available as individual paperbacks: How Students Learn: History in the Classroom How Students Learn: Mathematics in the Classroom How Students Learn: Science in the Classroom Each of these volumes comes with a CD-ROM of the complete How Students Learn text. Top of Page Home About Ordering New Releases The National Academies Home 500 Fifth St. N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001 Contact NAP RSS Podcasts Notes from NAP Subscribe Copyright © 2012. National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Terms of Use and Privacy Statement