DescriptionIn the second clip of this classroom session, researcher Carolyn Maher reminded the students about the “Candy Bar” problem that they had discussed in an earlier session. She showed the students a...
DescriptionIn this clip at the start of the session, researcher Carolyn Maher placed an overhead on the projector and asked the students to read the problem that was written. She then asked what they remembered...
DescriptionIn the fifth and final clip from this session, researcher Carolyn Maher asked Jessica to re-explain her original model. Jessica restated her argument, saying that the model showed that one half was...
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...
DescriptionIn the final clip of the series of seven from an after-school enrichment session in an urban middle school, Ariel, a 7th grade boy, revisits his method for solving a specific example of the Ladder...
DescriptionIn the sixth of seven clips from an after-school enrichment session in an urban middle school, Ariel, a 7th grade boy, continues to apply his method for solving specific examples of the Ladder...
DescriptionIn the third of six clips from an after-school enrichment session in an urban middle school, Ariel, a 7th grade boy completing a unit about linear functions, continues his work on the Museum problem. ...
DescriptionIn the seventh clip Amy, Jacquelyn, and James built another rod model at the overhead to show their solution to the problem: Which is larger one half or one quarter. Amy explained that they had tried...
DescriptionDanielle and Gregory presented their model to represent the solution to the problem: Which is larger one half or one fourth and by how much. They built a model of an orange and dark green train, two...
DescriptionIn clip 4, researcher Carolyn Maher asked the class to determine the number name for the white rod in the first model that had been built, in which the orange and red train was called one. James,...