With so many toppings to chose from, make the ice cream truck combinations a fun math problem that teaches your learners about outcomes. The video introduces a tree diagram that allows your mathematicians to see how to create combinations in two different problems. The second example matches up teams for tennis and demonstrates the need to cross out duplicate combinations. Some of the practice problems show multiplication to find the combinations, use the additional video in materials for this corresponding lesson. 

Concepts

combinations, outcomes, probability, tree diagrams

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Additional Tags

tree diagram, combinations, possible outcomes, probability, math

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Pros

• Introduces tree diagrams that require elimination of duplicates
• Printable vocabulary 

Cons

• Only does a two-tiered tree diagram, create a third factor in class

Common Core

7.SP.C.8.a 7.SP.C.8.b MP7