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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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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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DescriptionIn the second of 6 clips, the four 11th grade students generate an exhaustive list of pizza options choosing from 4 toppings. They recognize that the 16 choices correspond to the fourth row of...
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DescriptionIn this fifth of six clips, four 11th grade students reconsider Pascal's Triangle as it relates to the Pizza Problem and connect this problem with the Towers Problem. As the students summarize their...
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DescriptionThis clip is the first of six featuring four grade 11 students, Robert, Stephanie, Shelly, and Amy Lynn, as they construct and justify solutions to the Pizza Problem. This clip focuses on Stephanie...
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Date Created1993-04-05
DescriptionThis video comes from The Private Universe Project in Mathematics and includes interview with researcher, Carolyn Maher, as well as narrative voice-over, interspersed with footage of a task-based...
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Date Created2014-04-27
DescriptionIn this problem solving session two students, Brandon and Colin, are working to solve the pizza problem when selecting from four toppings [problem statement is below]. Brandon and Colin both organize...
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DescriptionIn the final clip the students generalize the exponential structure of the Pizza Problem and describe the relationship between two consecutive rows of Pascal’s Triangle with reference both to the...
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DescriptionIn the fourth of six clips, the four students develop the structural isomorphism between adding an additional pizza topping choice and the addition rule for successive rows of Pascal’s Triangle and...
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Date Created1993-03-01
DescriptionIn this edited video, the first of a set of two clips developed for the Private Universe Project in Mathematics, 12 fifth grade students during two consecutive classroom sessions work in two groups,...
