Lesson Plan in Teaching Union and Intersection of Sets

By: Keno Martin L. Adviento BSE-Mathematics

Date:

I. Objectives: At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to

1. Describe and define.
a. union of sets.
b. intersection of sets
2. Perform the set operations
a. union of sets.
b. intersection of sets
3. Use Venn diagram to represent the union and intersection of sets and know its symbol

II. Subject Matter

a. Topic: Union and Intersection of sets
b. Materials: Copies of the text lesson, board, chalk/marker, Powerpoint presentation
c. Reference: Grade 7 learners module Quarter 1- Module 1: week 1- Operations on
set
Bukidnon national Highschool
Youtube video lesson- Teaching Union and intersection of sets: Presented by
Dhea: uploaded by teach D
d. Method of teaching: Class Discussion

III. Procedure

A. Opening
• Opening Prayer
• Greeting of students
• Checking of Attendance

B. Presentation
• Ask the student about a review or recap of yesterdays lesson
• Ask the student the definition of set

C. Motivation
• Introduced a game called “pictoword”
Instructions:
a. The students will group themselves by five
b. A picture will be shown, then write down words that they can associate with the picture
c. In each picture they will have 20 seconds to put all the words that they can think of
Pictures:
a. b. c.
Possible answers
a. Union, Holding, Hand Marriage, Couple, Wedding
b. Intersection, crossroad, traffic flow
c. similar, shapes, proportion, ratio
Then announce the winner of the game
D. Lesson Proper

• Introduced the topic for today’s lesson

Topic: Union and intersection of set
• Show the objectives of today’s lesson and let the students read.
• Ask the class if anyone is familiar about a Venn diagram.
• Explain to the class what is a Venn diagram.
(A Venn diagram is a drawing that uses closed curves or shapes to represent a set)
• Ask the class if they have an idea what is a union of set.
(the combination of the elements of set)
• Further explanation:
The union of set is denoted by the symbol (∪)
• Explain what is a unique set.
(A unique set is one of the fundamental operations through which sets can be related to
each other. Therefore A + B = A ∪ B)
• Show an example of a union set
Given the set A= {1, 2, 3, 4} and set B= {3, 4, 6, 8} what is A ∪ B?
• Ask the students about their observations of the two sets
(Both sets has the same number of elements, Both sets has two elements that are the
same)
Combining all elements we will get A ∪ B = {1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8}. Note that the common
elements are only counted once.
• The cardinality of the union of two sets is given by the following equation
n(A ∪ B) = n(A) + n(B) – n(A ∪ B)
• Note: The important thing to get the union of a set is we need to add all the elements of
the set involved and we will not repeat the element considered as intersection of a set
• Ask the students an idea about what is intersection of a set.
( The elements that are common to both sets which is their intersection or the
commonalities of the two sets)
• Further explanation:
The intersection set is denoted by the symbol (∩)
• Show an example of intersection of set
Given the set A= { , , , } and set B = { , , , } what is the
intersection of sets A and B
Take only the elements that are common to the sets so A ∩ B = { , }
• Summary:
1. The union of two sets A and B is a set consisting of all the elements, which are in set A or
set B or both.
2. Union of set is denoted by A ∪ B
3. The intersection of two sets A and B is a set consisting of all the common elements of the
sets A and B
4. Intersection of set is denoted by A ∩ B
• Ask the students for any clarifications.
• Ask questions to the students
Base on the previous lessons what have you remembered if when a set does not contain any
element?
(Ans: null set is the answer when you will find intersection and there is no common element
in the two sets given)
But what about the set itself what is the relationship between set A and set B when they don’t
have any single element in common, any idea what it is?
(Ans. Disjoint set)

Explain what is disjoint set.

Disjoint sets are sets whose intersection is an empty set or a null set

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Sunday
A b
Monday
Tuesday
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C d

A B
Disjoint set

This is only a part of a review since we have already tackled this topic right
(awaiting student response)

E. Development
To test what you have learned for today I will give you an activity to be passed this period

Exercises: Write your answers on the spaces provided:

A = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4}
B = {0, 2, 4, 6, 8}
C = {1, 3, 5, 7, 9}

1. A ∪ B 5. A ∩ B
2. A ∪ B 6. A ∩ C
3. B ∪ C 7. B ∩ C
 4. A ∪ B ∪ C 8. A ∩ B ∩ C

Assessment:

1. Given sets A and B determine which of

the following shows (a) union of sets A and
B and (b) intersections of sets A and B?

Set A Set B
Students who play Students who play
the guitar the piano
Ethan Molina Mayumi Torres
Chris Clemente Janis Reyes
Angela Dominguez Chris Clemente
Mayumi Torres Ethan Molina
Joanna Cruz Nathan Santos

Assignment:
Let W = x |0 < x < 3}, Y = { x |𝑥 > 2 }, and Z = {x |0 x 4}

Determine a. (W ∪ Y ) ∩ Z b. W ∩ Y ∩ Z