MATH 3000 – Learning Outcomes

Title: Bridge to Higher Mathematics

After successfully completing Math 3000, a student should be able to:

  • Develop a truth table for a logical expression
  • Express the negation of a logic statement
  • Correctly decide if two statements are logically equivalent
  • Express the converse, inverse and contrapositive of a logic statement
  • Express universally and existentially quantified statements, and their negations
  • Understand the definition of a set
  • Correctly express the union, intersection and complement of sets
  • Do a direct proof
  • Correctly decide if a given proof is valid
  • Do a proof by contrapositive, contradiction or exhaustion
  • Understand indexed families of sets, their unions, intersections and complements
  • Do a proof using mathematical induction: the statement to be proved may be an equality or an inequality
  • Correctly decide if a given relation is an equivalence relation
  • Correctly determine the equivalence classes of an equivalence relation
  • Understand the division algorithm and its implications in divisibility problems
  • Correctly express the power set of a given set, and its cardinality
  • Correctly decide if a function is one-to-one, onto, or has an inverse
  • Correctly formulate the composition of two functions
  • Correctly decide if a set is finite, countable or uncountable
  • Correctly use the epsilon definition of greatest lower bound and least upper bound in proofs
  • Correctly apply the concepts of open and closed sets to proofs
  • Correctly apply the concepts of limit points, deleted neighborhoods and closure to Proofs
  • Correctly decide if a sequence is monotone and/or bounded
  • Prove that a sequence converges to a limit, using the definition of convergence
  • Correctly decide if a function is bounded or monotone