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TitleTaxicab problem, clip 1 of 5: the shortest distance between two points.

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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TitleTaxicab problem, clip 5 of 5: extending the taxicab correspondence to pizza with toppings and binary notation

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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TitleTaxicab problem, clip 2 of 5: investigating the number of shortest paths.

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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TitleTaxicab Problem, Clip 4 of 5: Explaining the Taxicab and Towers Isomorphism

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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TitleTaxicab problem, clip 3 of 5: It's Pascal's triangle! But Why?

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...