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1. How We Think

   A Theory of Goal-Oriented Decision Making and its Educational Applications

   By Alan H. Schoenfeld

   Series: Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series

   Teachers try to help their students learn. But why do they make the particular teaching choices they do? What resources do they draw upon? What accounts for the success or failure of their efforts? In How We Think, esteemed scholar and mathematician, Alan H. Schoenfeld, proposes a groundbreaking...

   Published October 4th 2010 by Routledge
2. Mathematical Thinking and Problem Solving

   Edited by Alan H. Schoenfeld, Alan H. Sloane

   Series: Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series

   In the early 1980s there was virtually no serious communication among the various groups that contribute to mathematics education -- mathematicians, mathematics educators, classroom teachers, and cognitive scientists. Members of these groups came from different traditions, had different...

   Published August 31st 1994 by Routledge
3. Toward a Scientific Practice of Science Education

   Edited by Marjorie Gardner, James G. Greeno, Frederick Reif, Alan H. Schoenfeld, Andrea A. diSessa

   This volume supports the belief that a revised and advanced science education can emerge from the convergence and synthesis of several current scientific and technological activities including examples of research from cognitive science, social science, and other discipline-based educational...

   Published June 30th 1990 by Routledge
4. Cognitive Science and Mathematics Education

   Edited by Alan H. Schoenfeld

   This volume is a result of mathematicians, cognitive scientists, mathematics educators, and classroom teachers combining their efforts to help address issues of importance to classroom instruction in mathematics. In so doing, the contributors provide a general introduction to fundamental ideas in...

   Published April 30th 1987 by Routledge