Speaker 1: All right, I have a problem for us to work on, okay?

Speaker 2: Okay.

Speaker 1: It’s about a farm. We’re going to imagine that there are animals on this farm. There are 13 animals. There are chickens and pigs; there’s 13 of them on the farm. Now, if we look at all their legs, there are 40 legs. The question is, how many chickens are there, and how many pigs are there?

Speaker 1: Thanks for working on that problem. What I actually want to ask you is, how confident are you in your answer? You can say not very confident, a little bit confident, really confident, or super confident. I’m actually interested in everybody–How confident are you in your answer?

Speaker 2: 98% confident.

Speaker 1: 98% confident. Pretty high. How do you feel?

Speaker 3: 43% confident.

Speaker 1: 43% confident. Kind of in the middle, like middle confidence, sort of.

Speaker 4: Maybe 60.

Speaker 1: 60% confident.

Speaker 5: 30.

Speaker 1: 30% confident. Got some ideas there, a little bit. All right. We have some confidence here. I want to start with you. You’re our highest confidence. What makes you confident in your math work on this problem?

Speaker 2: I did six pigs and eight chickens; 6 times 4 equals 24, and since chickens have two legs, 8 times 2 equals 16.

Speaker 1: You had 16 and you had 24?

Speaker 2: Yes.

Speaker 1: Altogether the legs are 40. That gives you pretty good confidence, right?

Speaker 2: Yes.

Speaker 1: When you guys were not super confident, what could help you be more confident? Some of you are maybe getting more confident right now as you’re working and as you’re hearing each other, what could make you more confident in your work?

Speaker 4: I started feeling more confident as we run around and other people said different things. Some people’s answers were very close or the same as mine, so I started feeling better because it would be more likely that we all got the right answer than the wrong answer.

Speaker 1: Wonderful. Two of you had the same answer and these two were very close–only one animal different, right? Where you started to think like, “Oh, that might be getting to the right answer.”