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TitleEarly algebra, investigating linear functions, series 5 of 7, ladder problem, Clip 5 of 7: Ariel revisits his solution for the 120 step ladder

DescriptionIn the fifth of seven clips from an after-school enrichment session in an urban middle school, Ariel, a 7th grade boy, continues his work on the Ladder Problem. Researcher John Francisco challenges...

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TitleEarly algebra, investigating linear functions, series 5 of 7, ladder problem, Clip 4 of 7: Predicting the number of rods for ladders with 80 and then 120 steps

DescriptionIn the fourth of seven clips from an after-school enrichment session in an urban middle school, Ariel, a 7th grade boy, continues his exploration of ideas about linear functions. Researcher John...

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TitleEarly algebra, investigating linear functions, series 5 of 7, ladder problem, Clip 6 of 7: How many rods for a ladder with 125 steps?

DescriptionIn the sixth of seven clips from an after-school enrichment session in an urban middle school, Ariel, a 7th grade boy, continues to apply his method for solving specific examples of the Ladder...

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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 4 of 4: Designing a new rod set

DescriptionResearcher Amy Martino posed two related tasks to the students. In this clip, the students work on designing a rod that can be called one half when the blue rod is called one. Erik and Alan discuss...

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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, investigating linear functions, series 7 of 7, Ariel's 8th grade interview, Clip 2 of 5: Ariel solving the Ladder problem

Date Created2007-05-17

DescriptionIn the second of five clips from a follow-up interview about his participation in Informal Mathematics Learning (IML), an after-school enrichment program, Ariel, an 8th grade student in an urban...