Reasoning-and-explanation - Session 9: Planning instruction to target reasoning and engagement in mathematical practices
Part 2: Exploring Pascal’s Triangle
Overview
This part launches work on a mathematics problem – Pascal’s Triangle. This problem is different from previous problems because the focus is on explaining how particular solutions, in this case patterns, are produced. This work is designed to support different methods of explaining and different uses of the representation to support explanations. Later it is used as the basis for summarizing some of the work on the CCSS mathematical practices.