5. Warming up on Learning Theories

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Pick one of the individuals listed below. Investigate the learning theory of the individual and briefly state the fundamental concept of the theory and how it contributes to the teaching/learning of mathematics at the high school level (you may do this by describing a specific classroom example of how the theory is used in the lesson).

David Ausubel, Albert Bandura, Jerome Bruner, John Dewey, Friedrich Froebel, Robert Gagne, J. P. Guilford, Johann Pestalozzi, Jean Rousseau, B. F. Skinner, Edward Thorndike, Bernard Weiner, John Watson, Gestalt Psychology, or Information-Processing.

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