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DescriptionIn this one-on-one interview with Angela when she was in high school, she discusses how she solved the Towers problem three days earlier when she worked with Magda. The researcher prompts her to start...
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DescriptionIn this session, four high school students: Magda, Angela, Michelle, and Sherly, work on the Pizza Problem as described in the task previously mentioned. The researchers start by having a student,...
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Date Created1999-03-01
DescriptionThis raw footage features four eleventh-grade students - Amy Lynn, Robert, Shelly, and Stephanie - engaged in a challenging problem-solving experience with a combinatorics task referred to as the...
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Date Created1999-03-01
DescriptionThis raw footage features four eleventh-grade students - Amy Lynn, Robert, Shelly, and Stephanie - engaged in a challenging problem-solving experience with a combinatorics task referred to as the...
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DescriptionIn this session, six high school students: Magda, Angela, Michelle, Robert, Sherly, and Ashley, meet to solve the 2-colors, 5-tall Towers Problem. First, the researchers begin by asking questions...
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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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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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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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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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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...
