DescriptionThis is the third session of Cohort Two of the Informal Mathematics Learning study. In this clip, students present their responses to the prompt "Claim: the red rod is 1/4 as long as the brown rod....
DescriptionThis video captures a discussion between researchers and teacher-interns reflected on the fourth day of Cuisenaire rod activities with Cohort Two of the Informal Mathematics Learning study.
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DescriptionThis video captures a discussion between researchers and teacher-interns reflected on the third day of Cuisenaire rod activities with Cohort Two of the Informal Mathematics Learning study.
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.
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. ...
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...
DescriptionThis is the third of seven clips from the night session. The four students (Ankur, Jeff, Michael, and Romina) investigate the reason for dividing n! by (n-x)! and x! when calculating “n choose...
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...
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...