DescriptionIn this problem solving session two students, Brandon and Colin, are working to solve the pizza problem when selecting from four toppings [problem statement is below]. Brandon and Colin both organize...
DescriptionThis video presents one camera view from a post-high school session conducted with seven students who participated in the Rutgers longitudinal study. The session, the first of two in which the...
DescriptionThe small group interview with 4 students (Jeff, Michelle, Milin, and Stephanie) lasted about an hour and occurred after the students worked in the classroom on building towers of height five...
DescriptionIn the fifth clip in a series of ten from the fifth of seven interviews, 8th grader Stephanie continues her exploration of Early Algebraic Ideas about Binomial Expansion. Referring to the...
DescriptionA week after the first time they worked with the World Series problem, Ankur, Jeff, Michael, and Romina met a second time to work on the World Series problem. Brian was not available for this session....
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 asks Stephanie and Dana how many towers they have created. The two girls had been working on the Towers Problem introduced in the first clip in this series. After...
DescriptionIn this clip, Stephanie and Dana continue to work on the Towers Problem, introduced in the first clip in this series. Stephanie tells another group of children to double-check their towers for...
DescriptionIn this clip, Stephanie and Dana work on recording their solution to the Towers Problem, introduced in the first clip in this series. As Dana finishes her recording her towers solution individually,...
DescriptionHaving worked in the previous two clips of this series to create towers three cubes high selecting from two colors, researcher Alice Alston facilitates a group discussion about the students’...