Combinatorics and Number Mazes

Abstract

Summary Two recent articles in Teaching Statistics, by Marcuson (1989) and Goodall (1990), have presented interesting approaches to the teaching of some aspects of combinatorics. This note, based on some work on number maze games generated by a sixth form student, gives an example of using combinatorial ideas in an unusual setting – a multidimensional discrete space – so that both the meanings of these ideas may be fully grasped and the interrelations between the mathematical areas covered can be appreciated.