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Handout
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Permutations, Factorials and Combinations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Thirty-one problems present a variety of practice working with permutations, factorials and combinations. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click the...
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Lesson Plan
Other

The Actuarial Foundation: Let's Go to the Mall! Explorations in Combinatorics

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Let's Go to the Mall! is designed to help students understand the connection between various kinds of combinations (multiplication principle and choose numbers) and permutations.
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Website
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Factorial

For Students 9th - 10th
This page gives a very complete description of the use of factorials in mathematics. The most general information is at the top.
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Activity
University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Thoughts on Teaching Perm. And Combin.

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An article written for teachers with recommendations on how to present permutations, combinations, and the binomial theorem to students. It contains both useful suggestions about order of presentation and many class examples. A good...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Counting Principle, Combinations, and Permutations

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will solve discrete math problems involving permutations, factorials, and combinations. Students are responsible for deciding which is appropriate to solve a given word problem.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Many Ways Can You Arrange a Deck of Cards?

For Students 9th - 10th
Any time you pick up a well shuffled deck, you are almost certainly holding an arrangement of cards that has never before existed and might not exist again. Yannay Khaikin explains how factorials allow us to pinpoint the exact (very...
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Unit Plan
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Factorials

For Students 9th - 10th
This math tutorial defines factorial notation and features practice problems and a teacher resource page.
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eBook
Mathigon

Mathigon: Combinatorics: World of Math

For Students 6th - 8th
This lesson focuses on Combinatorics, a branch of mathematics which is about counting. It includes 5 sections: Factorials, Permutations, Combinations, Combinatorics and Pascal's Triangle, and Combinatorics and Probability with examples...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Probability: Basic Counting Rules

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This Concept introduces students to the most basic counting rule: the multiplication rule. It also explains the probability of simple random samples.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Probability: Permutations Grades 10 12

For Students 10th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson covers how to define and use factorials to determine the number of permutations or arrangements of objects.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Calculating Factorials (Practice)

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a 7-problem quiz/practice on calculating factorials.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Calculating Factorials

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand how to calculate and use factorials.
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Activity
Other

Lake Tahoe Com. College: Fundamental Counting Principle

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the fundamental principle of counting, which is the beginning point for any study of counting techniques such as combinations and permutations.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Divisibility & Factorials

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Testing for divisibility of 0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10 & 11. This flipchart explores factorials and perfect numbers as well.
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Activity
Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Counting and Probability

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An introduction to the concept of counting and probability includes working with factorials and finding the probability of an event.
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Unit Plan
Shmoop University

Shmoop: Basic Statistics & Probability: Factorials

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The probability resource investigates factorials. Students learn about the topic through notes and examples. The tutorial consists of practice exercises to check for comprehension of the concept.
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Website
Purple Math

Purplemath: Factorials

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A review of factorials in the areas of combinations, permutations, probability, and the Binomial Theorem is presented. Examples are worked out and explained, complete with graphing calculator steps.