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DescriptionIn the fourth clip researcher Carolyn Maher asked the students to each come up and take a turn placing some fractions on the number line. She called on Gregory to come up first. He placed a one half...
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DescriptionIn the third clip researcher Carolyn Maher stated that similarly to the number line going on and on forever, so does the numbers in between zero and one. The students then explored dividing the line...
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DescriptionIn the first of five clips from this classroom session, the researcher, Amy Martino, provided the students with an opportunity to briefly discuss a task that they had been working on during the...
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DescriptionIn the fourth clip Michael and Brian worked together to compare one half and three fourths.
Michael built a model of an orange and red train, two dark green rods, and four light green rods. He then...
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DescriptionIn the seventh clip, Erik and Alan worked to extend their model using the orange and red train to show fourths and halves. They concluded that three fourths was larger than two thirds by one twelfth....
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DescriptionIn the sixth clip Erik and Alan worked on the task: Which is larger, one half or three fourths. Erik showed, using the orange and red train as one, that the difference between the two fractions was...
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DescriptionIn the second of five clips from this classroom session, Alan worked alone at his desk on a new task that the researcher, Amy Martino, had posed. He built models to find the difference between one...
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DescriptionIn the third of five clips from this classroom session, David, Erik, and Meredith are building a large model on the floor in an attempt to reconstruct what they had built in a previous session....
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DescriptionIn the second clip, Kimberly and Audra worked together on the task: Which is larger one half or three fourths. Kimberly built a model using an orange and red train, two dark green rods, and four light...
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DescriptionIn the third clip, researcher Amy Martino then worked with Mark and Laura. Mark justified his solution using each model he built. The researcher asked Mark if he thought that a different model might...
