DescriptionThis summary has been retrieved from Sran (2010):
“During this third individual interview, Milin discovered his “family” strategy. This helped him with the global organization of his towers of...
DescriptionThis raw footage features four eleventh-grade students - Amy Lynn, Robert, Shelly, and Stephanie - engaged in a challenging problem-solving experience with a combinatorics task referred to as the...
DescriptionThis raw footage features four eleventh-grade students - Amy Lynn, Robert, Shelly, and Stephanie - engaged in a challenging problem-solving experience with a combinatorics task referred to as the...
DescriptionThe purpose of the study was to describe the instructional applications of a philosophically based model of a mathematical inquiry to the teaching of mathematics. The first phase of the study...
DescriptionIn this video, the fourth grade partners Romina and Brian are constructing a solution to the “Towers Problem 5-High.” PROBLEM STATEMENT: "Your group has two colors of Unifix® cubes. Work...
DescriptionIn this clip, researcher Amy Martino introduces the following problem to the students: “How many different towers four blocks tall can you build when selecting from two colors?” Dana and Stephanie...
DescriptionIn this clip, Stephanie and Dana continue working on the Towers Problem, introduced in the previous clip in this series. For each tower that they create, Stephanie checks it against the ones they have...
DescriptionAmy Martino leads a whole class discussion during which they talk about ways of writing number sentences for two problems: 1) How many one sixths are in one? and 2) How many one twelfths are in one?...
DescriptionIn the first of three clips from a single class session, the researcher asks the 4th grade students to explain the mathematical task of the previous day when each of the three small groups within the...
DescriptionResearcher Carolyn Maher leads a whole class discussion after the students' exploration of the problem: Which is larger, one fourth or one ninth, and by how much? Several students described their...