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This book describes episodes that are based on video data from an NSF funded classroom study of nine-year old children investigating fraction ideas under conditions that supported investigation, collaboration and argumentation. All of the sessions during the study were videotaped with two or three cameras and the video data, transcripts, and student work were analyzed and stored in an open-source Video Mosaic Repository, VMC (www.videomosaic.org). The chapters that follow are based on analyses of these video data and are accompanied by video narratives (VMCAnalytics), built with the VMC RUanalytic tool to support the descriptions of student reasoning.
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Maher, C.A., Yankelewitz, D. (2017). The Experiment. In: Maher, C.A., Yankelewitz, D. (eds) Children’s Reasoning While Building Fraction Ideas. Mathematics Teaching and Learning. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-008-0_1
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