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Combinatorics Topics for K-8 Teachers

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Author:Roger Day
Description: Notes from fifteen sessions of a 1996 course for professional development. Includes a link to the home page for the course, where you can see problem sets, quizzes, tests, and the syllabus. Note topics include: Perfect Covers of Chess Boards, the Pigeonhole Principle, Summation and Product Notation, Combinations, Circular Permutations, Arranging Items When Repetition is Allowed, Pascal's Formula, Binomial and Multinomial Expansion, Pascal's Triangle, Number of Subsets of a Set, Fibonacci's Sequence in Pascal's Triangle, Solving sigma(i,1,n;a(i))=K Over Nonnegative Integers, Induction, Recursion, Finite Differences, the Inclusion/Exclusion Principle, and Derangements.

Levels: Elementary, Middle School (6-8)
Languages: English
Resource Types: Course Notes, Lesson Plans and Activities
Math Topics: Combinatorics

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