Slides for class

Slides ready to project: each problem is posed on one slide and solved on the next, with animations and teacher notes. They open in the browser, with nothing to download or install.

In the slides: arrow keys or click to move on, F full screen, N teacher notes.

For teachers only

The slides open with a teacher account. Signing up is free and also gives you groups, competitions and tracking of your students in the labs.

Combinatorics

Volume I · Counting without counting For teachers only

Combinatorics Almanac

Volume I · Counting without counting

Ages 12–14 Ages 14–15

The product rule with tables and trees, counting digit by digit, permutations and factorials, and words with repeated letters. Challenges with solutions at the end.

28 slides · 4 animations

Volume II · Binomial coefficients For teachers only

Combinatorics Almanac

Volume II · Binomial coefficients

Ages 14–15 Ages 15–16

Ana’s routes (a Gardner problem), the sum rule, Pascal’s triangle, bijections and binomial coefficients, with their formula and two proofs of Pascal’s rule.

27 slides · 3 animations

Volume III · Place your bets For teachers only

Combinatorics Almanac

Volume III · Place your bets

Ages 14–15 Ages 15–16

Classic bets to vote on before calculating: the Chevalier de Méré, Galileo’s three-dice problem, the birthday problem, the lottery against 24 heads, Newton and Pepys, and Pascal and Fermat’s problem of points.

27 slides · 4 animations

Probability

Volume III · Place your bets For teachers only

Combinatorics Almanac

Volume III · Place your bets

Ages 14–15 Ages 15–16

Classic bets to vote on before calculating: the Chevalier de Méré, Galileo’s three-dice problem, the birthday problem, the lottery against 24 heads, Newton and Pepys, and Pascal and Fermat’s problem of points.

27 slides · 4 animations