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DescriptionIn the first clip a visitor worked with Danielle and Gregory on the second task of comparing two third and one half. Danielle showed her using the twelve-centimeter long model, that three fourths was...
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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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TitleFraction problems, Sharing and Number Lines, Clip 2 of 5: Equal shares, 3 candy bars for 25 students
DescriptionIn this second of five clips from a single class session, the students consider how 3 candy bars could have been equally distributed among their class of 25. The students had worked on this problem...
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TitleBuilding large models to show equivalence, an exploration, Clip 1 of 4: Is there a larger model?
DescriptionDuring this session, researcher Carolyn Maher provided the students an opportunity to revisit the task that they had been introduced to during the previous session: Which is larger, two thirds or...
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Date Created1993-09-24
DescriptionAs the students were dispersing after class, David called over researcher Carolyn Maher to share his model. He built a balance beam using one vertical and one horizontal rod, placed two light green...
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DescriptionThis video was recorded during the first of many research sessions in a yearlong study conducted in a fourth grade classroom by researcher Carolyn Maher and colleagues. At the start of this session,...
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DescriptionIn the fifth of eight clips from this session, researcher Carolyn Maher asked the class to give a number name for the red rod if the brown rod was called one. Danielle explained that it would be...
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DescriptionIn clip seven, researcher Carolyn Maher told the students to use the remaining class time to challenge their partners with problems using the rods. Erik asked Alan, “If a light green was one third,...
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TitleFraction as number, an introduction, Clip 8 of 8: Emphasizing precise language in problem posing
DescriptionDuring the eighth and final clip from this session, Meredith and Sarah are working together to make up problems for one another to solve with the rods. Meredith asks Sarah "If you called one...
