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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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DescriptionIn the seventh clip Amy, Jacquelyn, and James built another rod model at the overhead to show their solution to the problem: Which is larger one half or one quarter. Amy explained that they had tried...
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DescriptionIn the third clip Alan presented another model to show the difference between one half and one third. He built a model using one dark green rod, two light green rods, three red rods, and six white...
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DescriptionIn the fourth clip researcher Carolyn Maher asked the students to each come up and take a turn placing some fractions on the number line. She called on Gregory to come up first. He placed a one half...
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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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Date Created1993-10-07
DescriptionResearcher Maher began the session by discussing the ideas that the students had worked on during the previous session. Then, the students worked in groups and revisited the task: Which is larger, one...
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Date Created1993-10-07
DescriptionResearcher Maher began the session by discussing the ideas that the students had worked on during the previous session. Then, the students worked in groups and revisited the task: Which is larger, one...
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Date Created1993-10-07
DescriptionResearcher Maher began the session by discussing the ideas that the students had worked on during the previous session. Then, the students worked in groups and revisited the task: Which is larger, one...
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DescriptionIn the second of eight clips from this session, researcher Carolyn Maher said, “Someone told me that the red rod is half as long as the yellow rod. What do you think?" Danielle responded that the...
