Teaching Permutation and Combination Using Play-way Method

Abstract

Mathematics from ages have proved itself to be a fearful subject probably because of its high demand of great thinking capability. As if that is not enough, the poor presentation and unfriendly attitude of some teachers worsen the situation such that mathematics continues to attract the interest of very few people and the percentage of females among them is very insignificant. Majority of people studying mathematics resulted to it because they could not get admitted to the course of their choice. Permutation and combination is one of the topics in Mathematics that pose problems to students. In this paper, we explain how permutation and combination could be taught using play-way approach among other methods that could be used.
Keywords: Teaching, permutation, combination.