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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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Education Educational psychology

• Full title: How Students Learn
• Subtitle: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom
• Author: Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 632
• EAN: 9780309074339
• ID: 04577218
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Weight: 1393 g
• Dimensions: 254 × 178 × 46 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. December 2004

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