Today we had some fun with different ways of representing permutation. As opposed to just writing ABCD on paper, telling students that you can generate 24 ways of arranging ABCD in a sequence, we went through many interesting ways of representing this mathematical concept. The sound hearing process, as well as the visual organization of origami paper and poem making activities are really mind opening and I am hoping I get to try at least one out of the three on my long practicum.
I am not sure if I will get to teach a unit on combinatorics (did it disappear from the curriculum content?), but I will certainly think about what are some ways I can transform some concept in an auditory form like the octave bell for sequences/series, or organizing origami paper to represent a arithmetic/geometric sequence in a visual and touchable way (there is something satisfying about putting these colourful square paper just nicely on a table).
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