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Direct linkMellinger, Keith E. – Mathematics and Computer Education, 2004
Teaching the art of counting can be quite difficult. Many undergraduate students have difficulty separating the ideas of permutation, combination, repetition, etc. This article develops some examples to help explain some of the underlying theory while looking carefully at the selection of various subsets of objects from a larger collection. The…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Computation, Undergraduate Students
