Logical Reasoning
Virginia SOL DM.LR.1
Develop and apply logical arguments using reasoning and symbolic logic.
What students need to be able to do
- Use Venn diagrams to codify and solve logic problems.
- Express logical statements in symbolic form.
- Represent a conditional statement as its converse, inverse, and contrapositive.
- Describe how symbolic logic maps processes in computer applications.
- Construct a truth table to display all possible input combinations and their outputs.
- Identify rules of inference and model logical statements including De Morgan's Law.
- Apply logical reasoning to model contextual situations and make decisions.