Chapter 1 begins with a section on the definition of abstraction and discusses its importance in written mathematics. Then it discusses language and how symbolic language can be used to express the methods of arithmetic. The order conventions of the written language are given. The procedures of arithmetic are described as simple symbolic sentences. The context for the language lessons of Chapter 1 is numbers.
Students learn that symbolic sentences can express methods.
In the last section examples of sentences include properties of absolute values and methods of solving inequalities. Chapter 2 introduces sets and functions as examples of mathematical concepts that can be discussed in the language. From the section on functions here are typical questions of a conceptual nature. That looks wrong. For information about ordering a copy .