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Entertain and grab your learners' attention with a short video clip that engagingly teaches the concept of a permutation and how a factorial is a wonderful shortcut for theoretical probability calculations.
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Instructional Ideas
- Show this video clip to kick off a unit on calculating permutations in theoretical probability and include anagrams in your examples and practice problems
Classroom Considerations
- Prepare a worksheet of practice problems that ask learners to distinguish when and how to calculate a permutation problem
Pros
- Includes short assessment
- Engaging, entertaining, short, and to-the-point
- Includes additional reading on the history of factorials, and the connection of anagrams as the permutation of letters
Cons
- None