DescriptionIn the fourth of six clips in Series 4 of Exploring Linear Functions, Ariel, a 7th grade students in an after-school enrichment program, is given Guess my Rule problem 5 to consider. He notices...
DescriptionResearcher Amy Martino posed two related tasks to the students. In this clip, the students work on designing a rod that can be called one half when the blue rod is called one. Erik and Alan discuss...
DescriptionIn the first of six clips in Series 4 of Exploring Linear Functions, Ariel and James, 7th grade students in an after-school enrichment program, are asked to find a "rule" for the Truth Table for Guess...
DescriptionIn the second of six clips in Series 4 of Exploring Linear Functions, Ariel, a 7th grade student in an after-school enrichment program, defends his approach for finding values of Y for problem 4. When...
DescriptionIn the third of six clips in Series 4 of Exploring Linear Functions, Ariel, a 7th grade students in an after-school enrichment program, explains the patterns that he has recognized in the table for...
DescriptionDuring this clip, the students discuss a task that had been posed by Erik: If I call the blue rod one, what rod will I call one half? A lively discussion centering on the definition of one half...
DescriptionResearcher Amy Martino posed two related tasks to the students that highlighted the difference between additive and multiplicative reasoning. First, she asked the students: If we call the orange...
DescriptionIn the fourth clip in a series of seven from the seventh of seven interviews, 8th grader Stephanie and researcher Carolyn Maher investigate how to numerically represent the number of Unifix towers for...
DescriptionResearcher Maher began the session by discussing the relative size of fractions within different models. Using the analogy of two different sized dioramas of children in a fishing boat, the class...
DescriptionResearcher Maher began the session by discussing the relative size of fractions within different models. Using the analogy of two different sized dioramas of children in a fishing boat, the class...