DescriptionAfter a discussion in clip four of this series about how many towers can be built three cubes high when selecting from two colors, researcher Alice Alston asks the students to create towers three...
DescriptionResearchers Carolyn Maher and John Francisco conduct a group interview with Romina and Jeff as second-year college students who have been participants in a long-term study on development of...
DescriptionResearchers Carolyn Maher and Liz Uptegrove conduct a group interview with Romina, Angela and Magda as young professionals who have been participants in a long-term study on development of...
DescriptionThis video comes from a 6th grade class session in which the researcher, Robert B. Davis, introduces algebraic equations with two variables, using a square “box” and a “triangle” as symbols to...
DescriptionIn this clip, researcher Alice Alston leads a discussion about how many towers could be built three cubes high when selecting from two colors. In the previous clip, the students had discussed their...
DescriptionThis video comes from an interview conducted by researcher Carolyn Maher with Romina as an 11th grader and participant of a long-term study on development of mathematical thinking and reasoning in...
DescriptionAfter a discussion in the previous clip in this series about how many towers can be built three cubes high when selecting from two colors, researcher Alice Alston asks the students to create towers...
DescriptionAfter the students have worked on the Towers Problem in the Towers series, researcher Alice Alston facilitates a group sharing session. She begins by asking how many towers the students have found and...
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...
DescriptionAmy Martino introduced division of fractions by asking students to describe how many white rods equal an orange and red train. She then asked the students to name the white rod if the orange and red...