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TitleB39, Revisiting the World Series problem (student view), Grade 11, January 29, 1999, raw footage
Date Created2014-03-15
DescriptionA week after the first time they worked with the World Series problem, Ankur, Jeff, Michael, and Romina met a second time to work on the World Series problem. Brian was not available for this session....
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Date Created2004-05-05
DescriptionThis was the second session that 6th grade students from the Plainfield, NJ district explored probability by playing dice games in an after-school enrichment program. In this video, different pairs of...
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DescriptionIn the first of five clips, four twelfth grade students develop their initial strategies for approaching the Taxicab Problem. They determine the shortest distances to the three given points: A, B and...
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DescriptionIn the fifth of five clips, Romina, Brian and Michael, describe patterns and relationships identified in their solution to the Taxicab problem to Arthur Powell, a second researcher. The students...
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DescriptionIn the second of five clips, the four twelfth grade students employ various strategies to determine the number of shortest paths to the remaining two points, B and C, on the problem grid. Various...
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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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DescriptionIn the fourth of five clips, the four twelfth grade students explain their conjecture that Pascal's Triangle can be used to predict the number of paths to any point in the Taxicab grid to Carolyn...
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DescriptionIn the third of five clips, the four twelfth grade students attempt to justify for themselves and then demonstrate the relationship that they have conjectured between the Taxicab problem and Pascal's...
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DescriptionIn the fourth of six clips, the four students develop the structural isomorphism between adding an additional pizza topping choice and the addition rule for successive rows of Pascal’s Triangle and...
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DescriptionIn the final clip the students generalize the exponential structure of the Pizza Problem and describe the relationship between two consecutive rows of Pascal’s Triangle with reference both to the...
