International Journal of Education (IJE) Vol.11, No.3, September 2023 DOI:10.5121/ije.2023.11304 35 DIFFERENT LEARNING STYLES AND THE 4 MAT IN SCIENCE Adolfo E. Obaya-Valdivia 1 , Dulce Parrales-Vargas 2 , Carlos Montaño Osorio 1 1 FES Cuautitlán UNAM. Campo 1. Fisicoquímica. MADEMS (Química). México 2 CCH Naucalpan UNAM. Área de Ciencias Experimentales. México ABSTRACT This paper reviews the different learning styles in science, NLP, Kolb, Felder and Silverman, Hermann, McCarthy explaining their main characteristics and concluding with the socalled 4 MAT, which integrates them into a single model with eight pedagogical steps that must be covered in their entirety to connect teaching with student learning in an effective way. KEYWORDS learning styles, science, pedagogical steps, 4 MAT 1. INTRODUCTION Learning styles are the way students respond to or use stimuli in the learning environmentthat is, the educational conditions under which a student is most likely to learn.Learning styles are the cognitive, affective, and physiological traits that serve as relatively stable indicators of how students perceive interactions and respond to their learning environments (Alonso, et al., 2002). Learning styles depend on several components: 1. Environmental conditions 2. Cultural background 3. Age 4. Grouping preferences (working best individually or in teams) 5. Style followed for problems olving 6. Type of motivation, internal or external. The concept of learning styles is directly related to the conception of learning as an active process, according to the constructivist theory of learning where it requires the manipulation of information, by the receiver, to achieve knowledge (Aragón and Jiménez, 2009) There is a relationship on the behavior of students in class, and their way of learning, this is reflected in learning styles, giving the types of pedagogical strategies that are most effective, either by thematic content or social interaction with their classmates. According to Bloom (1964), the areas covered by learning must be considered in an important way, described as domains which can be classified as: 1. Cognitive: related to knowledge 2. Comediative: related to practice or doing.