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Tag: Permutations and Combinations

  • Return of an Old Friend

    In the last three posts, we have been dealing with some issues related to counting. In Learning to Count, I introduced us to the area of combinatorics and specifically combinatorial arguments. In the second post, Abjuring Double Counting, we looked at the inclusion-exclusion principle that is used to ensure that every element is counted exactly…

  • Learning to Count

    Background I have been teaching high school students for a while now. While I have taught physics and theory of knowledge, my main focus has been mathematics. One of the more fascinating areas of the high school mathematics syllabus is probability and statistics. Now don’t get me wrong. I know that, in an earlier post,…