Instructional Video13:58
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Binary, Hanoi and Sierpinski, part 1

12th - Higher Ed
How couting in binary can solve the famous tower's of hanoi problem.
Instructional Video13:40
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Binary, Hanoi, and Sierpinski, part 2

12th - Higher Ed
How counting in Ternary can solve a variant of the Tower's of Hanoi puzzle, and how this gives rise to a beautiful connection to Sierpinski's triangle.
Instructional Video
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Blossoms: The Towers of Hanoi: Experiential Recursive Thinking

9th - 10th
After viewing video components, students use manipulatives to work with the famous Towers of Hanoi problem. The goal is for learners to begin to understand recursive logic and thinking, relevant to computer scientists, mathematicians,...