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In previous chapters, we followed the students in Kenilworth as they worked on theshirts and jeans task and the towers problems in the second through fifth grades. Inthis chapter, we discuss five sessions during which these students worked to make sense of the pizza problems.
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Maher, C.A., Sran, M.K., Yankelewitz, D. (2011). Making Pizzas: Reasoning by Cases and by Recursion. In: Maher, C.A., Powell, A.B., Uptegrove, E.B. (eds) Combinatorics and Reasoning. Mathematics Education Library, vol 47. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0615-6_6
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