As promised, here’s the “hard way” to understand the Monty Hall Problem. A little math involved, but also the Back to the Future Time Machine!
As promised, here’s the “hard way” to understand the Monty Hall Problem. A little math involved, but also the Back to the Future Time Machine!
There are a couple of ways to explain the Monty Hall Problem – the easy way and the hard way. I have to make cheesy potatoes, so the hard way comes tomorrow…
Want to get your homeschool teenager to do probability? Try heading to the bead shop first. This video shows probability in action with a beautiful end result.
A fun puzzle from world famous Thiagi – and the number of different ways to solve it!
The two previous posts showed how to tell the difference between permutations and combinations and how to work with factorials. Now you’re ready to do some calculations!
Have you ever been told that “In permutations, order matters”? There are lots of permutation problems where there’s no ordering whatsoever. So how can you tell?!? Here’s how.
You may have seen n! – and I don’t mean to scream the 14th letter of the alphabet at you. So what the heck are factorials and why do you ever need to learn them? (Guess what – the answer is in this post!)
