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Logical Implication: The Quartet Task

Analyzing Related Statements to Understand Logical Impli- cations

In this task, students are given quartets of conditional statements to compare and contrast. This supports students to develop an understanding of logical implication based on truth sets represented through Euler diagrams.

task image on determining relationships between truth sets
This task is based on the following research article:
Hub, A., & Dawkins, P. C. (2018). On the construction of set-based meanings for the truth of mathematical conditionals. The Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 50, 90-102.