DescriptionIn the second of six clips in Series 4 of Exploring Linear Functions, Ariel, a 7th grade student in an after-school enrichment program, defends his approach for finding values of Y for problem 4. When...
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...
DescriptionThis is the sixth of seven clips from the night session. After Jeff draws Pascal’s Triangle in what the students call “choose” notation, the researcher asks the students to express an instance...
DescriptionDuring this session, Carolyn Maher asked the students to find the number of one third meter long bows from three, nine, twenty-seven, and eighty-one meters of ribbon. The students worked in partners...
DescriptionIn the fourth of six clips in Series 4 of Exploring Linear Functions, Ariel, a 7th grade students in an after-school enrichment program, is given Guess my Rule problem 5 to consider. He notices...
DescriptionIn the fifth of six clips in Series 4 of Exploring Linear Functions, Ariel, a 7th grade students in an after-school enrichment program, continues his work on Guess my Rule problem 5 with...
DescriptionIn the first of five clips in Series Two of Exploring Linear Functions: Guess My Rule, Yonny and Brandon, 7th grade students in an after-school enrichment program, are challenged by researcher Arthur...
DescriptionIn the second of five clips in Series Two of Exploring Linear Functions, researcher Arthur Powell challenges 7th graders,Yonny and Brandon, 7th to find a rule for Guess My Rule problem 2. Noticing the...
DescriptionIn the third of five clips in Series Two of Exploring Linear Functions, researcher Arthur Powell asks 7th graders,Yonny and Brandon, to continue their Guess My Rule exploration with problem 3....
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...