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Coding techniques in teaching activities is important starting from primary school level to prevent students from staying behind the quick transformation of information. The aim of this study is to design coding activities which can be used in Elementary School seventh grade factorial and permutation teaching, and to examine educational activities by observing classroom atmosphere that these activities are used. Qualitative research method was adapted to gather, analyze and interpret data. In the research, video recording and written documents were utilized as observational data gathering techniques. The implementation of the research was performed in the 2008-2009 education year fall semester, with 10 seventh grade students at a elementary school in Zeytinburnu district of İstanbul. At the end of the research, it was found that the students have been familiar with coding, and they have gained the ability of using mathematical concepts and operation skills to be used in coding. It was detected that the students have been learned factorial and permutation concepts and performed practices by the help of coding and decoding activities.

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