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DescriptionIn the second clip researcher Carolyn Maher stated that the class would be studying pieces of the number line. She referred to the homework from the prior session and stated that the class was...
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Date Created1993-09-24
DescriptionAs the students were dispersing after class, David called over researcher Carolyn Maher to share his model. He built a balance beam using one vertical and one horizontal rod, placed two light green...
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DescriptionIn the fourth clip from this session, Jessica reported that Jackie and Kelly’s argument was different than their original argument in which they had showed the difference between one half and one...
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DescriptionIn the second clip from this session, researcher Carolyn Maher asked the students if they felt confident to justify their solution to the problem: Which is larger, one half or one third, and by how...
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DescriptionIn the second clip from this classroom session, researcher Carolyn Maher posed a challenge. She asked the students to name the red rod if a train of yellow and light green was called two. The...
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DescriptionIn the second clip, David and Meredith worked on building models to represent their solution to the problem: Which is larger, two thirds or three quarters, and by how much. David first built two...
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DescriptionIn the fourth clip Erik repeated the explanation of his model to the classroom teacher. His model consisted of a train of three orange and one dark green rod and lined up four blue rods. He lined up...
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DescriptionIn the seventh clip, Erik and Alan worked to extend their model using the orange and red train to show fourths and halves. They concluded that three fourths was larger than two thirds by one twelfth....
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DescriptionIn the sixth clip Erik and Alan worked on the task: Which is larger, one half or three fourths. Erik showed, using the orange and red train as one, that the difference between the two fractions was...
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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...
