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The goal of this chapter is to motivate students to understand sets and tuples (sequences with finitely many non-OM components) as objects to which certain operations can be applied. By working with a set as a collection of objects and realizing that a set can be a member of another set, the student begins to think of a set itself as an object. Along these same lines, we try to strengthen the notion of a proposition as an object by giving many examples in which a proposition is an element of a set. We also attempt to objectify sets and tuples by having the student define ISETL funcs that return a set or a tuple.
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Baxter, N., Dubinsky, E., Levin, G. (1989). Sets and Tuples. In: Learning Discrete Mathematics with ISETL. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3592-7_3
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