On Equivalence Relations

Teaching equivalence relations using collaborative activities

“…While most mathematicians would agree with this, many of our undergraduate mathematics majors would find this statement puzzling. Although a plea was made in 1955 in [2] to bring the concept of equivalence relations into students' experience much earlier, even in the high school curriculum, currently most students completing a college calculus sequence have not yet been exposed to the concept. It is therefore important that when students are finally introduced to the concept, they understand that this concept is useful in many areas of mathematics and computer science.…”