Counting Principle

Burgers and salads and sodas, oh my! Scholars use a menu to investigate the Fundamental Counting Principle. They create tree diagrams to illustrate the number of possible choices for each given scenario.

If cubism were a religion, would you follow it? Lower-level tasks focus primarily on counting the number cubes in a structure and relating the number to surface area. As learners progress to higher-level tasks, isometric drawings and...

In this Fundamental Counting Principle worksheet, students solve and complete 6 different problems that include determining the number of license plates created. First, they multiply the number of ways that each event can occur according...

Students find the number of possible arrangements of several objects by using the Basic Counting Principle. In this math lesson plan, students divide into groups and determine the number of possible sandwiches which can be made given...

What is the Fundamental Counting Principle? Have you ever come across word problems that give you a bunch of options and you are asked to figure out the number of possible combinations? Well, if you know how to use the Fundamental...

Oh my, five types of bread, eight kinds of lunchmeat, and six choices of cheeses. How many different combinations of sandwiches can be made? That's going to take a long time to figure out. No, it's not. Just use the Fundamental Counting...

The notion of permutations is used when rearranging objects or values. How many ways can the letters in the word NUMBER be rearranged? Don't try writing them all out one by one because it would take a long time. Use the Fundamental...

What is the Fundamental Counting Principle? Have you ever come across word problems that give you a bunch of options and you are asked to figure out the number of possible combinations? Well, if you know how to use the Fundamental...

Sometimes all you need is an image to help solve a word problem. This tutorial shows how drawing picture can help you determine a correct number of possibilities with given data. You can also use the FCP or fundamental counting principle...

Once learners can represent sample spaces for compound events using methods such as organized lists, tables, and tree diagrams, the fundamental counting principle can be presented. The last video in the series reviews each method and...