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Date Created1992-02-06
DescriptionOn February 6, 1992 two classes of 4th grade students at Harding Public School in Kenilworth, NJ were given the ―Towers 5-high‖ task involving a choice of two colors of Unifix cubes. Romina and...
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DescriptionIn this one-on-one interview with Angela when she was in high school, she discusses how she solved the Towers problem three days earlier when she worked with Magda. The researcher prompts her to start...
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DescriptionIn this session, six high school students: Magda, Angela, Michelle, Robert, Sherly, and Ashley, meet to solve the 2-colors, 5-tall Towers Problem. First, the researchers begin by asking questions...
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DescriptionIn this session, four high school students: Magda, Angela, Michelle, and Sherly, work on the Pizza Problem as described in the task previously mentioned. The researchers start by having a student,...
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Date Created2004-11-17
DescriptionThis is the second session of Cohort Two of the Informal Mathematics Learning study. In this clip, students are discussing their responses to prompts involving the relationship between Cuisenaire...
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Date Created2004-11-17
DescriptionThis is the first session that Cohort Two of the Informal Mathematics Learning study. Students make observations about the Cuisenaire rods and make claims about relationships involving the rods.
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Date Created2014-02-12
DescriptionThis session marked a departure from those preceding it as it centered around a different activity. Instead of using Cuisenaire rods to represent fractions, the students were provided ribbons, meter...
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TitleB02, Working with larger ribbons and bows (presentation view), Grade 4, Dec. 14, 1993, raw footage
Date Created2014-02-07
DescriptionDuring this session, Carolyn Maher asked the students to find the number of one third meter long bows from three, nine, twenty-seven, and eighty-one meters of ribbon. The students worked in partners...
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Date Created2014-02-07
DescriptionDuring this session, Carolyn Maher asked the students to find the number of one third meter long bows from three, nine, twenty-seven, and eighty-one meters of ribbon. The students worked in partners...
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Date Created2014-02-07
DescriptionThe session began with a whole class discussion about the problems that the students had worked on the day before. Afterwards, the students worked with their partners on two series of tasks. These...
