Unit Objectives

After you have completed this unit, you will be able to:

1. Define and apply inductive reasoning
2. Define and apply deductive reasoning
3. Define and construct conditional statements and identify the hypothesis and conclusion
4. Define and construct a converse, inverse and contrapositive of a conditional statement
5. Define and construct biconditional statements
6. Develop truth tables
7. Recall the properties of equality and congruence from algebra
8. Define theorems, postulates, and definitions
9. Develop informal and 2-Column proofs along with proofs by contradiction
10. Develop counterexamples