TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council A2 - M. Suzanne Donovan A2 - John D. Bransford TI - How Students Learn: Mathematics in the Classroom SN - DO - 10.17226/11101 PY - 2005 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11101/how-students-learn-mathematics-in-the-classroom PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Education AB - How Students Learn: Mathematics in the Classroom builds on the discoveries detailed in the best-selling 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. This book 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. ER - TY - BOOK A2 - John Long TI - Mountains of Madness: A Scientist's Odyssey in Antarctica DO - 10.17226/9848 PY - 2001 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9848/mountains-of-madness-a-scientists-odyssey-in-antarctica PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - KW - Earth Sciences AB - This extraordinary book is the first-person account of John Long's two unforgettable "summers" on the southern continent. Told in a highly accessible and entertaining style, Mountains of Madness is the account of his three-month long fossil hunt. As the story unfolds, we learn of both the highs of scientific discovery as well as the grueling yet essential routines that must be practiced every day just to stay alive in one of the harshest environments on our planet. Alternating with the author's wonder at the intense beauty of his surroundings are his immense frustration and boredom that stem from being completely at the mercy of the elements. Throughout the course of the expedition, danger is never far off in this inhospitable land. Despite having been trained in the art of building snow caves and practiced in the skill of traversing glaciers, Long tells of two brushes with death in just one afternoon. The hair-raising escape from a deep crevasse is fraught with tension-only to be followed by yet another encounter with sudden disaster when the crash of an avalanche buries Long deep in the snow. ER -