This video captures four boys negotiating turns. The children use positional numbers to appease, negotiate, and solidify their place in the game. Unable to agree upon which participant will have a turn last, Emerson suggests using the counting rhyme, “Eeny, meeny, miney, moe,” to decide. Will proposes an alternate solution. He says, “How about we all be first.” The children have a desire to keep the game going, and no one wants to be last, so they accept Will’s solution. As their play resumes, the boys encounter new problems. The children discover that they do not have a way to regulate how many times a player can roll the marble during a single turn, nor do they have a way to determine whose turn is next. The children begin chasing after the marble, possibly inferring a belief that the person who controls the marble, controls the game. Will works to remind his peers of what is fair by saying, “You don’t get two turns,” and “You don’t get to keep it (marble).” Later in the clip, Emerson changes his mind and insists, “Everyone’s last.” Hoping to have another turn, he may assume that whoever is last in this rotation is the next person to have the marble.

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