DescriptionIn the second of six clips from an after-school enrichment session in an urban middle school, Ariel, a 7th grade boy completing a unit about linear functions, continues his work on the Museum problem....
DescriptionIn the first of five clips from a follow-up interview Ariel, an 8th grade student in an urban middle school, is asked to describe what he remembers about his participation in the after-school...
DescriptionIn the second clip in a series of nine from the first of seven interviews focusing on Early Algebraic Ideas about the binomial expansion, researcher, Carolyn A. Maher, asks Stephanie, an 8th grade...
DescriptionIn this second of five clips from a single class session, the students consider how 3 candy bars could have been equally distributed among their class of 25. The students had worked on this problem...
DescriptionThis is the third of seven clips from the night session. The four students (Ankur, Jeff, Michael, and Romina) investigate the reason for dividing n! by (n-x)! and x! when calculating “n choose...
DescriptionResearchers Carolyn Maher and Liz Uptegrove conduct a group interview with Romina, Angela and Magda as young professionals who have been participants in a long-term study on development of...
DescriptionIn the third of five clips from a follow-up interview, 8th grade student, Ariel, revisits his reasoning from his 7th grade experience in an after-school enrichment session in an urban middle school....
DescriptionIn the fourth of five clips from a follow-up interview about his participation in Informal Mathematics Learning (IML), an after-school enrichment program, Ariel, an 8th grade student in an urban...
DescriptionIn the second of five clips from a follow-up interview about his participation in Informal Mathematics Learning (IML), an after-school enrichment program, Ariel, an 8th grade student in an urban...
DescriptionIn this fifth of six clips, four 11th grade students reconsider Pascal's Triangle as it relates to the Pizza Problem and connect this problem with the Towers Problem. As the students summarize their...