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