Video : Private Universe Are You Convinced?

Watching video 2 reminded me of the process we went through in order to come up with strategies and answers to the problem. What I noticed is that the teachers had pretty much the same thinking process that the students had when they were working on the problem. Both used different strategies such as drawing the towers, patterns, but usually trial and error. Both were asked to give reasons in order to convince others why there knew that there was not anymore combinations. The 4 story problem forces anyone use inductive and deductive thinking. Towards the end I like that the students where able to see a pattern within their own patterns. All four students shared how they solve the problem and were willing to share their strategies. They also had to realize that coming up with a pattern would be the best strategie to solving a problem with 4 cubes or 10 cubes.