RICHELLE P.

MASING BSE SCIENCE 1

Learning Activity

Multiple Choice. Encircle the letter that corresponds to the correct answer.

1. Which is the language system that uses technical terms and grammatical
conventions peculiar to mathematical discourse and is supplemented by a
highly specialized symbolic notation for mathematical formulas?
Answer: A. Mathematical language

2. Which is used to express a formula or to represent a constant?

Answer: B. Symbols

3. Which of the following does NOT belong to the characteristics of the language of
mathematics?
Answer: A. Symbolic

4. Which is a correct arrangement of mathematical symbols and is used to represent a

mathematical object of interest?
Answer: A. Mathematical expression

5. Which is a collection of well-defined objects that contains no duplicates?

Answer: D. Set

6. Which sets contains all the elements in a particular situation?

Answer: B. Universal sets

7. What is a statement that is either TRUE or FALSE?

Answer: B. Proposition

8. Which statement is always TRUE?

Answer: C. Tautology

9. Which relation is described as a one-to-one correspondence and many-to one

correspondence?
Answer: D. Function

10. Which statement is always false?

Answer: D. Contradiction

B. Solve for the following.

1. Let A = {0, 2, 4, 6, 8}, B = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4} and C = {0, 3, 6, 9}. What are

a. A ∪ B ∪ C and b. A ∩ B ∩ C?
Answer: A= {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9} and B= {0}

2. Find the union of A = {2, 3, 4} and B = {3, 4, 5}.

Answer: {2, 3, 4, 5}

3. If A and B are two sets such that A ⊂ B, then what is A ∪ B?

Answer: A U B= B

4. Find the union, intersection and the difference (A - B) of the following pairs of sets.
(a) A = The set of all letters of the word FEAST
B = The set of all letters of the word TASTE
Union= {F, E, A, S, T}
Intersection= {A, S, T, E}
Difference= {F}

(b) A = {x : x ∈ W, 0 < x ≤ 7}
B = {x : x ∈ W, 4 < x < 9}
Union= {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}
Intersection= {5, 6, 7}
Difference= {1, 2, 3, 4}

(c) A = {x | x ∈ N, x is a factor of 12}

B = {x | x ∈ N, x is a multiple of 2, x < 12}
Union= {1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12}
Intersection= {2, 4, 6}
Difference= {1, 3, 12}

(d) A = {x | x ∈ I, -2 < x < 2}

B = {x | x ∈ I, -1 < x < 4}
Union= {-1, 0, 1, 2, 3}
Intersection= {0, 1}
Difference= {-1}
(e) A = {a, l, m, n, p}
B = {q, r, l, a, s, n}
Union= {a, l, m, n, p, q, r, s}
Intersection= {a, l, n}
Difference= {m, p}

5. If = {T, W, R} and B = {M, T, W}, what are A ∪ B, A ∩ B, A – B, and B – A?

Answer: A U B= {T, W, R, M}
A ∩ B= {T, W}
A – B= {R}
B – A= {M}

6. You have no car, but in need of a car next week. Your pal, Peter, is too busy with
work and study to go out, and so he can lend you his car Tuesday, Wednesday, and
Thursday. Your pal Mary is crazy busy at the beginning of the week, but she has plans
for the rest, so she can allow you to use her car Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
Peter will allow you to use his car those 3 days, and Mary will let you drive her car
those 3 days, how many days do you have covered?
A= {Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday}
B= {Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday}
A U B= {Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday}
Answer: 4 Days

C. Each question below is given two statements followed by two conclusions numbered
I and II. You have to take the given two statements to be true even if they seem to be
at variance from commonly known facts. Read the conclusion and then decide which
of the given conclusions logically follows from the two given statements, disregarding
commonly known facts. Write the letter only.
Select answer:
(A) If only conclusion I follows
(B) If only conclusion II follows
(C) If either I or II follows
(D) If neither I or II follows
(E) If both I and II follows
1. Statements: No women teacher can play. Some women teachers are athlets.
Conclusions:
I. Male athletes can play.
II. Some athletes can play.
Answer: E
2. Statements: No camera is cap. All caps are cameras.
Conclusions:
I. No camera is magazine.
II. Some cameras are magazines.
Answer: C

3. Statements: All huts are mansions. All mansions are temples.

Conclusions:
I. Some temples are huts.
II. Some temples are mansions.
Answer: E

D. Complete the PPG Matrix. Group the students with 6 members and let them
complete the matrix below.
PRIOR KNOWLEDGE PRESENT KNOWLEDGE GAINED KNOWLEDGE
(P) (P) (G)
● Perform operations ●Discussed the language, ● The order of operations
on mathematical symbols and convention of or BODMAS that is Bracket,
expression correctly mathematics. Order, Division, Addition
especially in using and Subtraction.
MDAS and PEMDAS. ● Explained the nature of
mathematics as a language. ● Binary Function
● The four basic ● Elementary Logic
concepts of ● Teach how to perform ● Propositions and
mathematics which are operations on mathematical Connectives
the set, relation, expressions correctly, its basic
function and binary. concepts and logic.

● Makes me appreciate that

mathematics is a useful
language.