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Date Created1993-04-02
DescriptionThis second clip in a set of two edited videos developed for the Private Universe Project in Mathematics, focuses on 12 fifth grade students during an extended session work individually and with their...
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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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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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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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Date Created2014-04-27
DescriptionIn this problem solving session two students, Brandon and Colin, are working to solve the pizza problem when selecting from four toppings [problem statement is below]. Brandon and Colin both organize...
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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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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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Date Created1997-12-12
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.
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Date Created1997-12-12
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. ...
