Focus on the Child videos are taken from one-on-one interviews with individual children. The interviews are designed to elicit evidence of children’s mathematical thinking. They are not teaching episodes or formal assessments.
March 18, 2013
A student determines the relative lengths of different objects.
A kindergartner demonstrates how high he can count.
A child counts forwards and backwards using a number line with hidden digits.
A child attempts to duplicate a pattern using colored blocks.
A child makes patterns using keys.
A child computes how many are missing from a larger group.
A student stacks cups to organize them by size.
A child composes a 6-pointed star shape using pattern blocks in multiple ways.
A child attempts to find what comes next in a pattern.
A student takes a look at a pattern of blocks of increasing quantity.