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1 Analytic found

TitleNight session, Pascal's identity, clip 2 of 7: making sense of factorial notation and "why you multiply"

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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1 Analytic found

TitleFraction problems, Sharing and Number Lines, Clip 4 of 5: Jessica and Andrew's Number Line

DescriptionIn the fourth of five clips from a single class session, we see two students, Jessica and Andrew, placing unit fractions, ranging from 1/10 to 1/2, on a number line segment with endpoints labelled 0...

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2 Analytics found

TitlePizza problems with four and five toppings, clip 3 of 6: Why does it work?

DescriptionThe third of 6 clips focuses on the four 11th grade students as they map the numbers of pizza choices to the rows of Pascal’s Triangle and attempt to make sense of the addition rule with the...

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1 Analytic found

TitleNight Session, Pascal’s Identity, Clip 5 of 7: Another way to write Pascal’s Triangle

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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1 Analytic found

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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1 Analytic found

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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1 Analytic found

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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1 Analytic found

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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1 Analytic found

TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview five of seven, Clip 2 of 10: Unifix cube towers 4 tall, selecting from two colors, as a model for selecting two objects from a group of four.

DescriptionIn the second clip in a series of ten from the fifth of seven interviews, 8th grader Stephanie continues her exploration of Early Algebraic Ideas about Binomial Expansion. She is revisiting the...

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1 Analytic found

TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview five of seven, Clip 4 of 10: Investigating the "doubling pattern" for unifix towers of increasing heights.

DescriptionIn the fourth clip in a series of ten from the fifth of seven interviews, 8th grader Stephanie continues her exploration of Early Algebraic Ideas about Binomial Expansion. Using combinatorics...