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DescriptionIn the first of nine clips in a first grade classroom, Teacher Angela Marinaro introduces the day's activity and distributes a packet of problems to each child. She asks the students to identify the...
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Date Created1989-03-21
DescriptionIn the third of nine clips in a first grade classroom, four children: Stephanie, Gerardo, Sean and Aaron, are working first on Problem 3 and then on Problem 4 of a set of 6 word problems involving...
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Date Created1989-03-21
DescriptionIn the second of three clips in a first grade classroom, Jeff, Milin and Jamie begin by reading problem 2. Jeff and Milin use Unifix cubes and Jamie counts out stones to model the problem. The two...
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Date Created1989-03-21
DescriptionIn the second of nine clips in a first grade classroom, four children: Stephanie, Gerardo, Sean and Aaron, focus on the 2nd problem in a set of 6. After Stephanie reads the problem, the children use...
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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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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...
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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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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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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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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...
