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TitleNight session, Pascal's identity, clip 2 of 7: making sense of factorial notation and "why you multiply"

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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1 Analytic found

TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview five of seven, Clip 4 of 10: Investigating the "doubling pattern" for unifix towers of increasing heights.

DescriptionIn the fourth 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. Using combinatorics...

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1 Analytic found

TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview five of seven, Clip 3 of 10: Unifix cube towers 4 tall, selecting from two colors, as a model for selecting three, four or zero objects from a group of four.

DescriptionIn the third 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. She is revisiting the...

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1 Analytic found

TitleEarly algebra ideas about binomial expansion, Stephanie's interview five of seven, Clip 2 of 10: Unifix cube towers 4 tall, selecting from two colors, as a model for selecting two objects from a group of four.

DescriptionIn the second 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. She is revisiting the...

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1 Analytic found

TitleFraction problems, Sharing and Number Lines, Clip 4 of 5: Jessica and Andrew's Number Line

DescriptionIn the fourth of five clips from a single class session, we see two students, Jessica and Andrew, placing unit fractions, ranging from 1/10 to 1/2, on a number line segment with endpoints labelled 0...

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1 Analytic found

TitleNight Session, Pascal’s Identity, Clip 7 of 7: Generating and generalizing Pascal’s Identity

DescriptionThis is the last of seven clips from the night session. The students (Ankur, Jeff, Michael, and Romina) explain to Brian, a late-comer, the meaning of Pascal’s Identity (the addition rule for...

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1 Analytic found

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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1 Analytic found

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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1 Analytic found

TitleNight Session, Pascal’s Identity, Clip 6 of 7: Examples of Pascal’s Identity in the notation for combinations

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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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...