Activity Description Classify various objects into categories in a Venn Diagram. Learn how categories in Venn Diagrams work. Venn Diagrams is one of the Interactivate assessment explorers.

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Venn Diagrams

Place in mathematics curriculum:

This activity can be used to:

• introduce the concept of Venn Diagrams.
• explore different types of Diagrams.
• apply Venn Diagrams as a tool for exploring various academic subjects

This activity allows the user to explore Venn Diagrams and their various applications. This activity would work well in groups of two for about thirty to forty-five minutes if you use the exploration questions and fifteen to twenty minutes otherwise.

Preparations for this activity:

• explain all vocabulary words used in the applet.
• explain what happens when the object being classified does not fall under the categories of any of the circles
• give the categories for the class Venn diagram for question three in the exploration questions.