DescriptionIn this task-based interview Brandon, a 10-year-old 4th grade boy, shares his ideas with the researcher, Amy Martino, about two problems that he had solved in earlier class sessions. In the first...
DescriptionIn the fifth clip in a series of nine from the first of seven interviews focusing on Early Algebraic Ideas about the binomial expansion researcher Carolyn Maher asks Stephanie to multiply (x + y)(x +...
DescriptionIn the final ninth clip in the series from the first of seven interviews focusing on Early Algebraic Ideas about the binomial expansion, Stephanie is presented with a drawing of a square with sides...
DescriptionIn the fifth clip in a series of nine from the fourth of seven interviews in which 8th grader Stephanie explores Early Algebraic Ideas about Binomial Expansion, Stephanie uses the small and large cube...
DescriptionIn the eighth clip in a series of nine from the first of seven interviews focusing on early algebraic ideas about the binomial expansion, Stephanie explores possible meanings for x*y + y*x (with *...
DescriptionIn the seventh clip in a series of nine from the first of seven interviews focusing on Early Algebraic Ideas about the binomial expansion, Stephanie uses the distributive property to determine that...
DescriptionIn the fourth clip in a series of six from the second of seven interviews in which 8th grade Stephanie explores Early Algebraic Ideas about Binomial Expansion, the researcher, Carolyn Maher asks...
DescriptionIn the second clip in a series of nine from the fourth of seven interviews in which 8th grader Stephanie explores Early Algebraic Ideas about Binomial Expansion, Stephanie describes to researcher...
DescriptionThe students work on the task: If the orange rod is called fifty, what number name would I give the white rod? Sarah and Beth offer an answer immediately, and are questioned by researcher Amy Martino...
DescriptionDuring this clip, the students discuss a task that had been posed by Erik: If I call the blue rod one, what rod will I call one half? A lively discussion centering on the definition of one half...