Video Index

Trixie

2 years, 8 months - Rational Counting - (click here)

2 years, 8 months - Rational Counting - (click here)

2 years, 8 months - Modeling - Easy Addition - Trixie is playing with her xylophone, counting something on my T-shirt, when I see an opportunity to introduce an Easy Addition problem. "I have 5 fish over here, and 5 fish over here. What I want to know is how many fish I have altogether." (click here)

2 years, 9 months - Rote Counting - (click here)

2 years, 9 months - Rational Counting - (click here)

2 years, 11 months - Modeling - Hard Subtraction 1 - Trixie is playing with a collection of toy Sesame Street characters. She has 5 Cookie Monsters and 3 Big Birds. She knows that she has more Cookie Monsters than Big Birds. Then I ask her, "how many more?" (click here)

3 years, 4 months - Modeling - Easy Addition - Trixie knows that her school-age cousins get homework - worksheets with math problems. So Trixie wants homework also. (click here)

3 years, 4 months - Modeling - Easy Subtraction - Suppose that you have 5 chickens and that you give 2 of them to me. How many chickens do you have left? (click here)

3 years, 4 months - Modeling - Hard Addition - Suppose that I have 2 pennies. And suppose that you have 3 more pennies than I have. How many pennies do you have? (click here)

3 years, 4 months - Modeling - Hard Subtraction 1 - I have 2 chickens and you have 5 chickens. How many more chickens do you have than I have? (click here)

3 years, 4 months - Modeling - Hard Subtraction 2 - You have 4 chickens. You have 3 more chickens than I have. How many chickens do I have? (click here)

3 years, 8 months - Modeling - Easy Multiplication - There are 3 people, and each person has 2 pigs. How many pigs are there altogether? (click here)

3 years, 9 months - Modeling - Hard Subtraction 1 - I have 2 parts of a snake. You have 6 parts of a snake. Who has more parts of a snake - your or me? How many more do you have than I have? (click here)

3 years, 9 months - Modeling - Hard Multiplication - I have 2 parts of the snake. You have 3 times as many parts as I have. How many parts do you have? (click here)

Rose

5 years, 8 months - Modeling - Easy Subtraction - Suppose that you have 3 snakes and that someone gives you some more so that you now have a total of 7 snakes. How many snakes were you given? (click here)

5 years, 8 months - Shortcuts - Easy Multiplication - There are 4 lambs, and each lamb has 4 legs. How many legs are there altogether? (click here)

5 years, 8 months - Shortcuts - Hard Multiplication - I have 2 tigers and Trixie has 3 times as many tigers. How many tigers does Trixie have? (click here)

5 years, 8 months - Modeling - Combinations (Multiplication) - You have 2 shirts and 3 pair of pants. How many different outfits can you make? (click here)

6 years, 7 months - Shortcuts - Easy Addition - There were 4 chickens and then 3 more came. How many chickens would there be? (click here)

6 years, 7 months - Shortcuts - Hard Subtraction 1 - I've got 5 pennies. You've got 3 pennies. How many more do I have than you have. (click here)

6 years, 7 months - Shortcuts - Easy Multiplication - There were 5 buses and there were 2 chickens on each bus. How many chickens are there altogether? (click here)

Eva

7 years, 8 months - Shortcuts - Easy Subtraction - You had 3 candies and then Rose gave you some more. You then had 8 candies. How many candies did Rose give you? (click here)

7 years, 9 months - Shortcuts - Subtraction - How much is 51 take away 27? How much is 63 take away 27? (click here)

8 years, 7 months - Shortcuts - Easy Addition - You have 29 gumdrops and I have 27 gumdrops. How many gumdrops do we have altogether? (click here)

8 years, 7 months - Shortcuts - Hard Addition - I have 3 pennies and you have 5 more pennies than I have. How many pennies do you have? (click here)

8 years, 7 months - Shortcuts - Easy Subtraction - Suppose that you had 23 snakes and 5 of them slithered away. How many would you have left? (click here)