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1 Analytic found

TitleNight session, Pascal's identity, clip 3 of 7: further explorations of factorials and combinations

DescriptionThis is the third of seven clips from the night session. The four students (Ankur, Jeff, Michael, and Romina) investigate the reason for dividing n! by (n-x)! and x! when calculating “n choose...

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1 Analytic found

TitleNight session, Pascal's identity, clip 2 of 7: making sense of factorial notation and "why you multiply"

DescriptionThis is the second of seven clips from the night session. In it, Jeff, Michael, and Romina, along with Ankur (who has just arrived), use the analogy they call “people on a line” to investigate...

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1 Analytic found

TitleNight Session, Pascal’s Identity, Clip 7 of 7: Generating and generalizing Pascal’s Identity

DescriptionThis is the last of seven clips from the night session. The students (Ankur, Jeff, Michael, and Romina) explain to Brian, a late-comer, the meaning of Pascal’s Identity (the addition rule for...

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1 Analytic found

TitleNight session, Pascal's identity, clip 1 of 7: thinking about the meaning of combinatorics notation

DescriptionThis is the first of seven clips from the night session. In it, Jeff, Michael, and Romina discuss the coefficients of the binomial expansion, specifically (a+b) to the 10th power. In attempting to...

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1 Analytic found

TitleNight Session, Pascal’s Identity, Clip 6 of 7: Examples of Pascal’s Identity in the notation for combinations

DescriptionThis is the sixth of seven clips from the night session. After Jeff draws Pascal’s Triangle in what the students call “choose” notation, the researcher asks the students to express an instance...

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1 Analytic found

TitleNight Session, Pascal’s Identity, Clip 5 of 7: Another way to write Pascal’s Triangle

DescriptionThis is the fifth of seven clips from the night session. The students (Ankur, Jeff, Michael, and Romina) have been discussing Pascal’s Triangle. The researcher rewrites row 3 of Pascal’s...

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1 Analytic found

TitleNight session, Pascal's identity, clip 4 of 7: An example of Pascal's identity

DescriptionThis is the second of seven clips from the night session. In it, Jeff, Michael, and Romina, along with Ankur (who has just arrived), use the analogy they call “people on a line” to investigate...

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2 Analytics found

TitlePizza problems with four and five toppings, clip 5 of 6: Explaining solutions

DescriptionIn this fifth of six clips, four 11th grade students reconsider Pascal's Triangle as it relates to the Pizza Problem and connect this problem with the Towers Problem. As the students summarize their...

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3 Analytics found

TitlePizza problems with four and five toppings, clip 2 of 6: Finding an answer

DescriptionIn the second of 6 clips, the four 11th grade students generate an exhaustive list of pizza options choosing from 4 toppings. They recognize that the 16 choices correspond to the fourth row of...

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3 Analytics found

TitlePizza problems with four and five toppings, Clip 1 of 6: Approaching the problem

DescriptionThis clip is the first of six featuring four grade 11 students, Robert, Stephanie, Shelly, and Amy Lynn, as they construct and justify solutions to the Pizza Problem. This clip focuses on Stephanie...