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...
DescriptionHaving worked in the previous two clips of this series to create towers three cubes high selecting from two colors, researcher Alice Alston facilitates a group discussion about the students’...
DescriptionAfter the students have worked on the Shirts and Pants Problem in the Shirts and Pants series, researcher Alice Alston facilitates a group sharing session. Jamie and Michael share their solution...
DescriptionAfter the students have worked on the Towers Problem in the Towers series, researcher Alice Alston facilitates a group sharing session. She begins by asking how many towers the students have found and...
DescriptionIn the first of three clips in a first grade classroom, teacher Angela Marinaro introduces the day's activity and distributes a packet of problems to each child. She first asks the students to...
DescriptionThis video is part of The Private Universe Project in Mathematics and includes narrative voice-over and interview with researcher, Carolyn Maher interspersed with footage of a group interview with...
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...
DescriptionThe small group interview with 4 students (Jeff, Michelle, Milin, and Stephanie) lasted about an hour and occurred after the students worked in the classroom on building towers of height five...
DescriptionIn this clip, Stephanie and Dana continue to work on the Towers Problem, introduced in the first clip in this series. Stephanie tells another group of children to double-check their towers for...