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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...

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TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview six of seven, Clip 4 of 11: Developing the correspondence among towers, selecting from two colors, Pascal's Triangle, and the symbolic algebraic expansions of (a+b) squared and (a+b) cubed

DescriptionIn the fourth clip in a series of eleven from the sixth of seven interviews, 8th grader Stephanie remembers that she had figured out the expanded algebraic expressions for (a+b) for powers up to 6. ...

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TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview six of seven, Clip 3 of 11: Comparing towers, selecting from two colors, built inductively and corresponding to the addition rule of Pascal's Triangle

DescriptionIn the third clip in a series of eleven from the sixth of seven interviews, 8th grader Stephanie continues a discussion of ideas about binomial expansion with researchers Carolyn Maher and Robert...

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TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview six of seven, Clip 5 of 11: Developing the correspondence between towers 4-cubes tall, selecting from two colors, Pascal's Triangle and the symbolic algebraic expansion of (a+b) to the 4th power

DescriptionIn the fifth clip in a series of eleven from the sixth of seven interviews, 8th grader Stephanie responds to questions from researchers Carolyn Maher and Robert Speiser about the correspondence...

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TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview six of seven, Clip 2 of 11: Stephanie rebuilds Unifix towers 1-cube, 2-cubes, 3-cubes and 4-cubes tall, selecting from two colors

DescriptionIn the second clip in a series of eleven from the sixth of seven interviews, 8th grader Stephanie continues her exploration of early algebraic ideas about binomial expansion with researchers Carolyn...

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TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview five of seven, Clip 5 of 10: Recognizing the symmetry for the two colors across the cases when building unifix towers four-cubes tall

Date Created1996-03-13

DescriptionIn the fifth 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. Referring to the...

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TitleEarly Algebra Ideas About Binomial Expansion, Stephanie's Interview Six of Seven: Clip 7 of 11: Generating towers 4-cubes tall, selecting from blue and green cubes, from towers with exactly one green cube to towers with exactly two green cubes.

DescriptionIn the seventh clip in a series of eleven from the sixth of seven interviews, 8th grader Stephanie is asked by researchers Carolyn Maher and Robert Speiser to consider how the Unifix-cube towers...

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TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview five of seven, Clip 6 of 10: Connecting the combinatorics notation for tower choices when selecting from two colors to the first 5 rows of Pascal's Triangle.

DescriptionIn the sixth 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. Researcher Carolyn Maher asks...

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TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview five of seven, Clip 7 of 10:
Continuing investigation of Pascal's Triangle to generate rows 5 and 6 and calculate the totals for each row.

DescriptionIn the seventh 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. Stephanie is asked by the...

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TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview five of seven, Clip 10 of 10: Generating the exponents in the expansion of (a + b) to the seventh power.

DescriptionIn the final 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. Researcher Carolyn Maher...