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COURSE INTENDED Upon completion of the course, the student must be able to:
LEARNING OUTCOMES: 1. Recognize and identify the nature of mathematics as a language.
2. Use different types of reasoning to justify statements and arguments
made about mathematics and mathematical concepts.
3. Use a variety of statistical tools to process and manage numerical data.
4. Apply mathematics in other areas such as finance, voting, health and
medicine, business, environment, arts and design, and recreation.
LEARNING MATERIAL 5
FOR WEEK NUMBER:
I. TITLE: SPEAKING MATHEMATICALLY
II. OBJECTIVES: At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
1. Familiar with the variables
2. Familiar with the Language of Sets
3. Familiar with the Language of Relations and Functions
III. INTRODUCTION: The aim of this book is to introduce you to a mathematical way of thinking
that can serve you in a wide variety of situations. Often when you start work
on a mathematical problem, you may have only a vague sense of how to
proceed. You may begin by looking at examples, drawing pictures, playing
around with notation, rereading the problem to focus on more of its details,
and so forth. The closer you get to a solution, however, the more your
thinking has to crystallize. And the more you need to understand, the more
you need language that expresses mathematical ideas clearly, precisely, and
unambiguously.
This chapter will introduce you to some of the special language that is a
foundation for much mathematical thought, the language of variables, sets,
relations, and functions. Think of the chapter like the exercises you would do
before an important sporting event. Its goal is to warm up your mental
muscles so that you can do your best.
IV. CONTENTS:
Lesson Coverage:
Some applications require that we find all of the subsets of a given set. One way to find all the subsets of
a given set is to use the method of making an organized list. First list the empty set, which has no elements. Next
list all the sets that have exactly one element, followed by all the sets that contain exactly two elements, followed
by all the sets that contain exactly three elements, and so on. This process is illustrated in the following example.
Set Operations
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