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...
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...
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...
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...
DescriptionDuring this session, conducted as a whole class discussion, Researcher Maher revisited the problem that the students had worked on during the previous three sessions: Which is larger, two thirds or...
DescriptionDuring this session, conducted as a whole class discussion, Researcher Maher revisited the problem that the students had worked on during the previous three sessions: Which is larger, two thirds or...
DescriptionDuring this session, conducted as a whole class discussion, Researcher Maher revisited the problem that the students had worked on during the previous three sessions: Which is larger, two thirds or...
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...
DescriptionIn clip 4, researcher Carolyn Maher asked the class to determine the number name for the white rod in the first model that had been built, in which the orange and red train was called one. James,...
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...