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...
DescriptionResearcher Amy Martino led a whole class discussion that focused on solutions to the task: I'm going to call the orange and light green together one…Can you find a rod that has the number name one...
DescriptionIn this fifth of six clips, four 11th grade students reconsider Pascal's Triangle as it relates to the Pizza Problem and connect this problem with the Towers Problem. As the students summarize their...
DescriptionIn the second of 6 clips, the four 11th grade students generate an exhaustive list of pizza options choosing from 4 toppings. They recognize that the 16 choices correspond to the fourth row of...
DescriptionResearcher Amy Martino posed two related tasks to the students. In this clip, the students work on designing a rod that can be called one half when the blue rod is called one. Erik and Alan discuss...
DescriptionDuring this clip, the students discuss a task that had been posed by Erik: If I call the blue rod one, what rod will I call one half? A lively discussion centering on the definition of one half...
DescriptionResearcher Amy Martino posed two related tasks to the students that highlighted the difference between additive and multiplicative reasoning. First, she asked the students: If we call the orange...