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Levels of Measurements
a. Nominal – Variable with no inherent order can be ( I, ii, iii) is enumeration category.
*Mathematical Language can describe a subset of the real world using only the symbols above.
Left Brain Hemisphere – responsible for controlling language and part of the brain in change of tasks
involving mathematics.
Mathematical Sentence – must state a complete thought.
Mathematical Expression – is a name given to a mathematical object of interest.
Truth of Sentence- mathematical sentence may either be true or false but not both.
Example 1. Write as English sentence and say whether they are true or false.
- For any real number x, its square is greater than or equal to 0. TRUE
b.
- For any real numbers x and y, the square of their sum is equal to the sum of their squares plus twice
Ex:
There was a jar of chocolate chip cookies on the table.
James and Monica were very hungry because they
hadn’t had anything to eat since breakfast, so they ate
half of the cookies. He ate one-third of what was left
in the jar. Sharon, who was waiting around nearby,
decided to take one-fourth of the cookies left in the jar.
Then Tiffany came rushing up and took one cookie to
munch on in her class. When Valerie looked at the
cookie jar, she saw there were two cookies left. How
many cookies were in the jar to begin with.
Sol:
Let x = total of the cookies
X = 12x