Free Sample

Thank you so much for downloading the sample resource.

Our sample resources contain the theory on the specific topic as

well as a free complimentary activity. To unlock the remaining
activities please upgrade to our Premium offering.

We hope it has been useful for you in the classroom or the

homeschooling environment and that your students enjoy the
activities.

Helping With Math is a very small family run business and we are
proud that we can offer education to over 40 countries globally. The
more support we have from our Premium members the more
resources we can release.

If you want the more comprehensive and detailed worksheet

collection then please upgrade to our Premium plan and support
our quest to make education affordable for all.

Don’t forget to come back and download the new material we add
every week!

Thanks for supporting Helping With Math. We can provide teachers

and homeschoolers with low-cost, high-quality teaching resources
because of our loyal subscribers and hope to serve you for many
years to come.

- The Entire Helping With Math Team

 7th 8th
Basic Advanced
Advanced

Helping With Math USA

GRADES

Suitable for students

Set and Set Notation aged 11-13

GRADE 1
Sets

This pack is ● It is a collection of distinct objects, called

suitable for learners elements, that shares common
aged 11-13 years characteristics.
old or 7th to 8th ● It is named using a capital letter.
graders (USA). The
● Well-Defined Sets - is a set whose
content covers fact
elements can easily be determined based
files and relevant
on the given characteristics.
basic and
advanced activities ● Not Well-Defined Sets - is a set whose is
involving Set and determined based on an preferences of
Set Notation an individual.

Set Notation
Roster Form
● Elements are written in listing
method separated by comma
and enclosed by the a pair of
brackets.
Rule Form
● Instead of enumerating the
elements, the set is described
using the common
characteristic of the elements
which is considered as a rule.
 EXAMPLES OF SETS

Well Defined and Not Well-Defined Sets

Set of frozen foods- well-defined set

Set of delicious frozen foods - not well-defined set

Explanation: Everyone can distinguish a frozen from from the

other products. But, to identify which one is delicious will be
based on individual preferences. Hotdogs and sausages might be
the delicious for some but not to all.
Write the given set in Roster and Rule Form.

Rule Form: {x|x is a supermarket name}

Set of supermarket
names in America Roster Form:
{Trader’s Joe, Publix, Aldi, Hy-Vee, ...}

Your turn. Do as indicated.

A. Classify if the set is well-defined or not.

1. Set of ice cream brands: _______________________________
2. Set of sections in the supermarkets: ______________________
3. Set of tastiest sausage brands: __________________________

B. Write the rule form and the roster form.

1. Set of supermarket personnels
Rule Form: ____________________________________________
Roster Form: __________________________________________

2. Set of different modes of payment in supermarket

Rule Form: ____________________________________________
Roster Form: __________________________________________
 TABLE OF ACTIVITIES

Ages 11-12 (Basic) 7th Grade

1 Supermarket Cart

2 Going to the Supermarket

3 Food Section

4 People in the Supermarket

5 Dairy Products

Ages 12-13 (Advanced) 8th Grade

6 Beverage Section

7 Promo Game

8 One Odd Out

9 Supermarket Attendant

10 Sets All Around

 G7
SUPERMARKET CART Basic

Let’s go to the nearest supermarket and apply the concepts of

sets in describing each set by giving their common characteristic.

Example:
{Apple, Banna, Orange, Grapes, Mango}

Answer: Set of Fruits

1 5
{Red, Orange, Yellow, {butter, cheese, milk, ice
Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet} cream, margarine}

Answer: ___________________ Answer: ___________________

2 6
{Carrot, Potato, Radish, {corned beef, spam, meat
Onion, Ginger, Onion} loaf, sardines, sausages}
Answer: ___________________ Answer: ___________________

3 7
{chocolate drinks, juice, cola, {broom, mop, detergent,
water, milk shakes} soap, brush, garbage bag}
Answer: ___________________ Answer: ___________________

4 8
{light bud, flashlight,
{Smartwater, Aquafina, Voss,
Fluorescent lamp,
Just Water, Poland Spring}
incandescent lamp}
Answer: ___________________ Answer: ___________________
 Copyright Notice

This resource is licensed under the Creative Commons

Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license.

You are free to:

● Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or

format
● Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material

Under the following terms:

● Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link

to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may
do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that
suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
● NonCommercial — You may not use the material for
commercial purposes.

For more information on this license, visit the following link:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Where possible, free-use images are sourced from online

repositories such as Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
References and sources for images are provided in the speaker
notes section of this document.

Thank you!