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TitleNumber Line Models and Placing Numbers on the Big Number Line, Clip 4 of 4

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...

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TitleNumber Line Models and Placing Numbers on the Big Number Line, Clip 2 of 4: Discussion of Meredith’s Number Line Models

Date Created1993

DescriptionThis is the second in a series of four clips from this session. The students discuss Meredith’s placement of fractions on a number line. Erik conjectures that a person would be confused with all...

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TitleIntroducing fraction equivalence and an exploration of fraction comparison, Clip 3 of 4: Proportional Reasoning Continued

Date Created1993

DescriptionThe students work on the task: If the orange rod is called fifty, what number name would I give the white rod? Sarah and Beth offer an answer immediately, and are questioned by researcher Amy Martino...

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TitleFraction as number, an introduction, Clip 7 of 8: Erik and Alan pose problems as partners

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 1 of 8: Assigning number names to rods

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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TitleFraction as number, an introduction, Clip 5 of 8: What is the unit?

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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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...

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TitleComparing fractions, a whole class debate, Clip 4 of 5: An argument based on a different model

DescriptionIn the fourth clip from this session, Jessica reported that Jackie and Kelly’s argument was different than their original argument in which they had showed the difference between one half and one...

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TitleComparing fractions and evaluating models that represent solutions, Clip 2 of 8: Comparing one half and one third, Jessica and Erik

DescriptionIn the second clip from this session, researcher Carolyn Maher asked the students if they felt confident to justify their solution to the problem: Which is larger, one half or one third, and by how...

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TitleDiscovering equivalent fractions and introducing fraction notation, Clip 2 of 5: David and Meredith compare one half and two thirds

DescriptionIn the second clip, researcher Carolyn Maher asked the students to build a model to show which is bigger, two thirds or one half, and by how much. The students worked with their partners to solve the...