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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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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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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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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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TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview three of seven, Clip 1 of 7: Revisiting earlier ideas about the square of the quantity (a + b)

DescriptionIn the first clip in a series of seven from the third of seven interviews in which 8th grader Stephanie explores Early Algebraic Ideas about Binomial Expansion, Stephanie arrives with several pages of...

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TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview three of seven, Clip 6 of 7: Expanding (a+b) cubed algebraically.

DescriptionIn the sixth clip in a series of seven from the third of seven interviews in which 8th grader Stephanie explores Early Algebraic Ideas about Binomial Expansion, Stephanie uses her numerical...

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TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview three of seven, Clip 5 of 7: Testing the partial symbolic expansion of the cube of (a+b) for a=3 and b=7.

DescriptionIn the fifth clip in a series of seven from the third of seven interviews in which 8th grader Stephanie explores Early Algebraic Ideas about Binomial Expansion, Stephanie is asked by researcher...

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TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview three of seven, Clip 2 of 7: Explaining the meaning of area of a square with concrete materials

DescriptionIn the second clip in a series of seven from the third of seven interviews in which 8th grader Stephanie explores Early Algebraic Ideas about Binomial Expansion, the researcher, Carolyn Maher, asks...

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TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview four of seven, Clip 8 of 9: Issues related to a physical model for (a+b) cubed and the volume of the model for a=1 and b=2.

DescriptionIn the eighth clip in a series of nine from the fourth of seven interviews in which 8th grader Stephanie explores Early Algebraic Ideas about Binomial Expansion, Stephanie revisits her physical model...

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TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview seven of seven, Clip 7 of 7: Finding a general direct "rule" for the number of Unifix-cube towers, selecting from two colors, for any height.

DescriptionIn the final clip in a series of seven from the seventh of seven interviews, 8th grader Stephanie responds to questions from researcher Carolyn Maher about problems that she and her classmates had...