DescriptionIn this one hour and forty minute unedited video, the fourth grade class was divided into pairs to work on a Towers problem on February 6, 1992. At the beginning of the session, there are two sheets...
DescriptionIn this second of five clips from a single class session, the students consider how 3 candy bars could have been equally distributed among their class of 25. The students had worked on this problem...
DescriptionIn this clip, the first of five clips from a single class session, the researcher asks the students to review how they were able to show that 1/4 is larger than 1/9 by 5/36. The students had worked...
DescriptionIn this short clip, James explains to Robert B. Davis his solution to the problem: Which is larger, one fourth or one ninth, and by how much? After some questioning, he explains that the train (i.e.,...
DescriptionIn this 8 minutes whole class discussion about early algebra ideas (specifically with regards to integers), Researcher Robert B. Davis models adding positive and negative integers to a class of...
DescriptionIn this problem solving session two students, Brandon and Colin, are working to solve the pizza problem when selecting from four toppings [problem statement is below]. Brandon and Colin both organize...
DescriptionIn the second of five clips from this classroom session, Alan worked alone at his desk on a new task that the researcher, Amy Martino, had posed. He built models to find the difference between one...
DescriptionIn the fourth of five clips from this classroom session, the researcher, Amy Martino, returned to Alan and questioned him about the third model that he had built for finding the difference between one...
DescriptionIn the third of five clips from this classroom session, David, Erik, and Meredith are building a large model on the floor in an attempt to reconstruct what they had built in a previous session....