Description“You could either have topping or no topping.” Students realized that the general tower problem and the general pizza problem have the same answer: 2^n.
Description“Everything we ever do always is like the tower problem.” Students worked on the 5-topping pizza problem. Mike introduced binary notation as a way to list the answers to the pizza problem. ...
DescriptionIn this edited and narrated episode from the Private Universe Project in Mathematics, five tenth-grade students consider two different problems. FIRST PROBLEM STATEMENT: “Choosing from two colors...