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.

Concepts

factorials, permutations, theoretical probability

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Additional Tags

math

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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

Common Core

HSS-CP.B.9 MP4 MP7