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Front Matter (R1-R16)

1 Introduction (1-28)

Part I HISTORY: 2 Putting Principles into Practice: Understanding History (29-78)

3 Putting Principles into Practice: Teaching and Planning (79-178)

4 They Thought the World Was Flat Applying the Principles of How People Learn in Teaching High School History (179-214)

Part II MATHEMATICS: 5 Mathematical Understanding: An Introduction (215-256)

6 Fostering the Development of Whole-Number Sense: Teaching Mathematics in the Primary Grades (257-308)

7 Pipes, Tubes, and Beakers: New Approaches to Teaching the Rational-Number System (309-350)

8 Teaching and Learning Functions (351-394)

Part III SCIENCE: 9 Scientific Inquiry and How People Learn (395-420)

10 Teaching to Promote the Development of Scientific Knowledge and Reasoning About Light at the Elementary School Level (421-474)

11 Guided Inquiry in the Science Classroom (475-514)

12 Developing Understanding Through Model-Based Inquiry (515-566)

A FINAL SYNTHESIS: REVISITING THE THREE LEARNING PRINCIPLES: 13 Pulling Threads (567-590)

Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Contributors (591-596)

Index (597-616)