DescriptionIn the first of five clips, four twelfth grade students develop their initial strategies for approaching the Taxicab Problem. They determine the shortest distances to the three given points: A, B and...
DescriptionIn the last of three clips in a first grade classroom, Jeff, Milin and Jamie begin by reading problem 4. Jeff, without referring to the stones or cubes, immediately states that Grandpa would have six...
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...
DescriptionAt an after-school session in the middle of their junior year, Ankur, Brian, Jeff, Michael, and Romina were introduced to the World Series problem [the problem statement is below]. The students...
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 second of eleven clips from the first day of the Early Algebra Ideas 6th grade class sessions, the researcher, Robert B. Davis, models adding positive and negative integers to a class of 6th...
DescriptionIn the tenth of eleven clips from the first day of the Early Algebra Ideas 6th grade class sessions,
all but three of the students claim to know the general "secrets" for finding values that make a...
DescriptionIn the sixth of eleven clips from the first day of the Early Algebra Ideas 6th grade class sessions, the researcher, Robert B. Davis, challenges students to try to find more than one value for each of...
DescriptionIn the seventh of eleven clips from the first day of the Early Algebra Ideas 6th grade class sessions, the students look for patterns for finding a solution to the problems. As solutions are...
DescriptionIn the fourth of eleven clips from the first day of the Early Algebra Ideas 6th grade class sessions, the students work in small groups to find and record solutions for the first two of a series of...