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Date Created2015-12-09
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...
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Date Created2015-12-09
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...
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Date Created2015-12-09
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...
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Date Created2014-02-12
DescriptionThis session marked a departure from those preceding it as it centered around a different activity. Instead of using Cuisenaire rods to represent fractions, the students were provided ribbons, meter...
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TitleB02, Working with larger ribbons and bows (presentation view), Grade 4, Dec. 14, 1993, raw footage
Date Created2014-02-07
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...
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Date Created2014-02-07
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...
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DescriptionIn the first clip from this session, researcher Carolyn Maher reminded the students that they had compared the fractional numbers one half and one third. For homework they had written about their...
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DescriptionIn the fourth clip from this classroom session, researcher Carolyn Maher led a whole class discussion. She told the class that she gave each of the two adults who were in the room half a chocolate bar...
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TitleBuilding large models to show equivalence, a generalization, Clip 1 of 3: Finding the smallest model
DescriptionAt the start of the session, researcher Carolyn Maher asked the students if they remember working on comparing two thirds and three quarters. She mentioned that she had seen students build more than...
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Date Created1993
DescriptionThis is the fourth in a series of four clips from this session. The researcher, Carolyn Maher, invites the students to take turns placing a number that they have been thinking of onto the big number...
