DescriptionIn the fifth of eleven clips from the first day of the Early Algebra Ideas 6th grade class sessions, the students work together to find the truth set for equation four on the worksheet recorded...
DescriptionIn the first of eleven clips from the first day of the Early Algebra Ideas sessions, the researcher, Robert B. Davis, introduces ideas about algebraic equations with one variable and truth sets to a...
DescriptionIn the third of eleven clips from the first day of the Early Algebra Ideas 6th grade class sessions, researcher Robert B. Davis builds on the idea about equations with one variable and integers...
DescriptionIn the second of eleven clips from the first day of the Early Algebra Ideas 6th grade class sessions, the researcher, Robert B. Davis, models adding positive and negative integers to a class of 6th...
DescriptionThis is the third of seven clips from the night session. The four students (Ankur, Jeff, Michael, and Romina) investigate the reason for dividing n! by (n-x)! and x! when calculating “n choose...
DescriptionThis is the second of seven clips from the night session. In it, Jeff, Michael, and Romina, along with Ankur (who has just arrived), use the analogy they call “people on a line” to investigate...
DescriptionIn this edited and narrated episode from the Private Universe Project in Mathematics, five tenth-grade students consider two different problems. FIRST PROBLEM STATEMENT: “Choosing from two colors...
DescriptionIn this full-session, raw footage video, students have come to school in the evening for a night session. The group, made up of Jeff, Michael and Romina begin discussing the coefficients of the...
DescriptionThis is the last of seven clips from the night session. The students (Ankur, Jeff, Michael, and Romina) explain to Brian, a late-comer, the meaning of Pascal’s Identity (the addition rule for...
DescriptionThis video comes from the Rutgers-Kenilworth Study, and edited for the The Private Universe Project in Mathematics (PUP-Math). It includes narrative voice over and an interview with Researcher, Robert...