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TitleRevisiting construction of large models to compare fractions, Clip 4 of 5: Alan reasons about the third model he constructed

DescriptionIn the fourth of five clips from this classroom session, the researcher, Amy Martino, returned to Alan and questioned him about the third model that he had built for finding the difference between one...

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TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview six of seven, Clip 4 of 11: Developing the correspondence among towers, selecting from two colors, Pascal's Triangle, and the symbolic algebraic expansions of (a+b) squared and (a+b) cubed

DescriptionIn the fourth clip in a series of eleven from the sixth of seven interviews, 8th grader Stephanie remembers that she had figured out the expanded algebraic expressions for (a+b) for powers up to 6. ...

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TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview seven of seven, Clip 7 of 7: Finding a general direct "rule" for the number of Unifix-cube towers, selecting from two colors, for any height.

DescriptionIn the final clip in a series of seven from the seventh of seven interviews, 8th grader Stephanie responds to questions from researcher Carolyn Maher about problems that she and her classmates had...

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TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview six of seven, Clip 2 of 11: Stephanie rebuilds Unifix towers 1-cube, 2-cubes, 3-cubes and 4-cubes tall, selecting from two colors

DescriptionIn the second clip in a series of eleven from the sixth of seven interviews, 8th grader Stephanie continues her exploration of early algebraic ideas about binomial expansion with researchers Carolyn...

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TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview six of seven, Clip 3 of 11: Comparing towers, selecting from two colors, built inductively and corresponding to the addition rule of Pascal's Triangle

DescriptionIn the third clip in a series of eleven from the sixth of seven interviews, 8th grader Stephanie continues a discussion of ideas about binomial expansion with researchers Carolyn Maher and Robert...

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TitleFractions, Grade 4, Clip 4 of 4: Designing a new rod set

DescriptionResearcher Amy Martino posed two related tasks to the students. In this clip, the students work on designing a rod that can be called one half when the blue rod is called one. Erik and Alan discuss...

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TitlePizza problems with four and five toppings, clip 5 of 6: Explaining solutions

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...

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TitleEarly algebra, investigating linear functions, series 7 of 7, Ariel's 8th grade interview, Clip 2 of 5: Ariel solving the Ladder problem

Date Created2007-05-17

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...

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TitleEarly algebra, investigating linear functions, series 7 of 7, Ariel's 8th grade interview, Clip 3 of 5: Revisiting the 7th grade procedures for Ladders

Date Created2007-05-17

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....

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TitleEarly algebra, investigating linear functions, series 1 of 7, Guess My Rule introduction and Ariel and James with problems 1-3, Clip 7 of 8: Preparing to present Guess My Rule ideas

Date Created2005-11-03

DescriptionThe seventh of eight clips in Series One of Exploring Linear Functions occurs during the students' second day exploring Guess My Rule problems. Researcher Allison McCulloch asks Ariel to prepare a...