Major Objectives of Chapter 2: Sets and Whole-Number Operations

Students will be able to:

o use manipulatives and ideas of sets to develop and understand the concept of whole number;

o use discrete and continuous models to represent the variety of physical situations associated with each whole-number operation;

o use the properties of and the relationships between the whole-number operations to develop strategies for learning basic facts;

o compare and contrast different numeration systems and identify the important characteristics of our base-ten Hindu-Arabic numeration system;

o use understanding of whole numbers and whole-number operations to solve problems;

o determine the union and intersection of sets;

o create a Venn diagram and label its component parts;

o use a Venn diagram to organize information;

o convert numbers from one base to another base;

o illustrate and explain addition and subtraction in other bases;

o illustrate and explain addition using the set model or number-line model;

o illustrate and explain subtraction using the take-away, comparison, missing-addend, or number-line models;

o illustrate and explain multiplication using rectangular arrays, repeated addition;

o illustrate and explain division using the set (partition), missing-factor, and/or repeated-subtraction models; and

o solve problems requiring the determination of the order of operations and state which operations were done first, second, etc.