In How We Think, esteemed scholar and mathematician Alan Schoenfeld proposes a groundbreaking theory and model about how we think and act in the classroom and beyond.

Alan H. Schoenfeld is the Elizabeth and Edward Conner Professor of Education and Affiliated Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Introduction and Acknowledgments

1. The Big Picture

2. Reflections, Caveats, Doubts, and Rationalizations

3. The Structure of the Representations Used in this Book

4. Lesson Analysis I: A beginning teacher carrying out a traditional lesson

5. Lesson Analysis II: An experienced teacher carrying out a non-traditional lesson

6. Lesson Analysis III: Third graders! A non-traditional lesson with an emergent agenda

7. Lesson Analysis IV: The analysis of a doctor-patient

Consultation - an act of joint problem solving

8. Next Steps

Indices, etc