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...
DescriptionResearcher Maher began the session by discussing the ideas that the students had worked on during the previous session. Then, the students worked in groups and revisited the task: Which is larger, one...
DescriptionResearcher Maher began the session by discussing the ideas that the students had worked on during the previous session. Then, the students worked in groups and revisited the task: Which is larger, one...
DescriptionDuring this session, conducted as a whole class discussion, Researcher Maher revisited the problem that the students had worked on during the previous three sessions: Which is larger, two thirds or...
DescriptionDuring this session, conducted as a whole class discussion, Researcher Maher revisited the problem that the students had worked on during the previous three sessions: Which is larger, two thirds or...
DescriptionDuring this session, conducted as a whole class discussion, Researcher Maher revisited the problem that the students had worked on during the previous three sessions: Which is larger, two thirds or...
DescriptionIn the fourth of five clips, the four twelfth grade students explain their conjecture that Pascal's Triangle can be used to predict the number of paths to any point in the Taxicab grid to Carolyn...
DescriptionIn the third of five clips, the four twelfth grade students attempt to justify for themselves and then demonstrate the relationship that they have conjectured between the Taxicab problem and Pascal's...
DescriptionIn the fifth of five clips, Romina, Brian and Michael, describe patterns and relationships identified in their solution to the Taxicab problem to Arthur Powell, a second researcher. The students...
DescriptionIn the second of five clips, the four twelfth grade students employ various strategies to determine the number of shortest paths to the remaining two points, B and C, on the problem grid. Various...