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...
DescriptionIn the fourth of five clips from a single class session, we see two students, Jessica and Andrew, placing unit fractions, ranging from 1/10 to 1/2, on a number line segment with endpoints labelled 0...
DescriptionThis is the third in a series of four clips from this session. The researcher, Carolyn Maher, asks the students where they would place the number “one” on the number line that Alan had made. The...
DescriptionThis is the fourth in a series of four clips from this session. The researcher, Carolyn Maher, invites the students to take turns placing a number that they have been thinking of onto the big number...