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TitlePizza problems with four and five toppings, clip 2 of 6: Finding an answer

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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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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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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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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TitleFractions, Grade 4, Clip 3 of 4: Multiple models to represent one half

DescriptionResearcher Amy Martino led a whole class discussion that focused on solutions to the task: I'm going to call the orange and light green together one…Can you find a rod that has the number name one...

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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 1 of 11: Stephanie revisits combinatorics notation for building towers

DescriptionIn the first clip in a series of eleven from the sixth of seven interviews, 8th grader Stephanie revisits her earlier exploration of particular algebraic ideas about binomial expansion with...

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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 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 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. ...