IT IS NEVER TOO EARLY TO START DEALING WITH LOGISTICS - SOME IDEAS ON THE USE OF SET LANGUAGE IN THE FIRST CLASSES OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Logistics is the planning, organization and monitoring of materials, information, people and sources flowing through systems. In Mathematics it means the interpretation and analysis of functions, sequences and relations between sets. That is why it is extraordinarily important to present the appropriate concept of sets to elementary school children. As a lecturer teaching the methodology of teaching mathematics, I have often been present in the practising classes of our students, so I have direct experience in what kind of examples and tasks in relation to sets teachers give children in the junior section of elementary school. In this paper, I present some typical, selected examples related to sets taken from workbooks for the junior section. Each of the examples suggests to the students that a set can be characterised with the common property of its elements. With my paper, I should like to draw the attention of teachers of mathematics in the junior section and of lecturers teaching methodology at teacher training colleges to this problem in order to avoid developing a “one-sided” concept of sets in young learners.