DescriptionResearchers Carolyn Maher and John Francisco conduct a group interview with Romina and Jeff as second-year college students who have been participants in a long-term study on development of...
DescriptionThis is the first clip of a series of seven of tower problem focusing on 4-tall tower using unifix cubes of two different colors (red and blue). Researcher Martino began by asking what a tower is and...
DescriptionThis is the second clip in a series of seven of building towers four tall problem using red and blue unifix towers. Brian suggests a new tower with two blue and two reds. Jeff said he would build the...
DescriptionThis is the fourth clip in a series of seven of building towers four tall problem using red and blue unifix towers. The researcher tells them to write on a paper the towers they had created. She tells...
DescriptionThis is the sixth clip in a series of seven of building towers four tall problem using red and blue unifix towers. Another student visited Brian and Jeff’s table and tells them that they got sixteen...
DescriptionThis is the second of seven clips from the night session. In it, Jeff, Michael, and Romina, along with Ankur (who has just arrived), use the analogy they call “people on a line” to investigate...
DescriptionThis is the third of seven clips from the night session. The four students (Ankur, Jeff, Michael, and Romina) investigate the reason for dividing n! by (n-x)! and x! when calculating “n choose...
DescriptionIn the second of 8 clips with second grade students, researcher Amy Martino interviews Jeff about how he and his group, which had included Stephanie and Brian, approached the candy heart problems in...
DescriptionThe 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 of paper posted on the board with the following...
DescriptionAfter a discussion in the previous clip in this series about how many towers can be built three cubes high when selecting from two colors, researcher Alice Alston asks the students to create towers...