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TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview seven of seven, Clip 1 of 7: Stephanie revisits generating Unifix-cube towers 4-tall from exactly one to exactly two red cubes.

DescriptionIn the first clip in a series of seven from the seventh of seven interviews, 8th grader Stephanie revisits her earlier exploration of how to generate Unifix-cube towers across cases with researchers...

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TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview six of seven, Clip 11 of 11:
Extending ideas about generating towers 4-cubes tall selecting from green and blue cubes to towers 5-cubes tall with exactly 1 green cube and connecting to Fermat and Pascal

DescriptionIn the final clip in a series of eleven from the sixth of seven interviews, 8th grader Stephanie is challenged by researchers Carolyn Maher and Robert Speiser to extend her ideas about how to build...

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TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview seven of seven, Clip 4 of 7: Investigating numerical and algebraic representations for each case for the number of Unifix-cube towers 4-tall selecting from red and yellow cubes.

DescriptionIn the fourth clip in a series of seven from the seventh of seven interviews, 8th grader Stephanie and researcher Carolyn Maher investigate how to numerically represent the number of Unifix towers for...

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TitlePizza problem selecting from four toppings, Clip 1 of 1: Brandon and Colin solve the problem and compare their solutions

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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TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview six of seven, Clip 9 of 11: Beginning to generalize mathematical expressions to generate cases for towers 4-cubes tall selecting from green and blue cubes

Descriptionn the ninth 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 describe mathematically how she has...

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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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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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TitlePUP Math Romina's proof to Ankur's challenge

Date Created1998-01-09

DescriptionIn this edited and narrated episode from the Private Universe Project in Mathematics, five tenth-grade students consider two different problems. FIRST PROBLEM STATEMENT: “Choosing from two colors...

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TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview seven of seven, Clip 5 of 7: Developing numerical representations for each case for the number of Unifix-cube towers 5-tall and 6-tall selecting from red and yellow cubes.

DescriptionIn the fifth clip in a series of seven from the seventh of seven interviews, 8th grader Stephanie and researcher Carolyn Maher extend their earlier investigation of how to represent the number of...