College Mathematics/Logic and Sets

Logic and Sets

Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for the logic and sets portion of CLEP College Mathematics include:

• Logical operations and statements: conditional statements, conjunctions, disjunctions, negations, hypotheses, logical conclusions, converses, inverses, counterexamples, contrapositives, logical equivalence
• Set relationships, subsets, disjoint sets, equality of sets, and Venn diagrams
• Operations on sets: union, intersection, and complement
• Applications

Readings

1. Wikipedia: Boolean algebra
2. Wikipedia: Set (mathematics)

Activities

1. Complete the Ryan's Tutorials: Boolean Algebra tutorial.
2. Review the following MathsIsFun resources and complete the questions at the bottom of each page:
   • Sets
   1. Introduction to Sets
   2. Sets and Venn Diagrams