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TitleNight session, Pascal's identity, clip 3 of 7: further explorations of factorials and combinations

DescriptionThis is the third of seven clips from the night session. The four students (Ankur, Jeff, Michael, and Romina) investigate the reason for dividing n! by (n-x)! and x! when calculating “n choose...

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TitleFraction problems, Sharing and Number Lines, Clip 2 of 5: Equal shares, 3 candy bars for 25 students

DescriptionIn this second of five clips from a single class session, the students consider how 3 candy bars could have been equally distributed among their class of 25. The students had worked on this problem...

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TitleRomina interview reflections (corporate consultant): Problem solving in business

Date Created2006-05-12

DescriptionResearchers Carolyn Maher and Liz Uptegrove conduct a group interview with Romina, Angela and Magda as young professionals who have been participants in a long-term study on development of...

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2 Analytics found

TitlePizza problems with four and five toppings, clip 5 of 6: Explaining solutions

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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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

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...