Name: Bianca Artillaga Section: GE-121

Exercises Set 1
1. What is mathematics for you?
 In my own words, Mathematics is to be a discipline that requires intense knowledge of numbers and
spaces. Also, it is a God -created wisdom that has been discovered by ‘mathematicians’ then and now
and continues to be discovered by people we can call ‘mathematically inclined’. This wisdom is
disseminated in the present and people share it with each other for use in their daily lives and in the
future.

2. Where do you apply the principles of mathematics?

 Math in the world around us sometimes seems invisible. But math is present in our world all the time in
like in the workplace, in our homes, and in life in general. For example, when we buy a car, follow a
recipe, or decorate our home, we are applying the math principles. Math applies to daily life and it is one
of the first things we learn in life even when we are a baby learn how to count.

3. Do you need mathematics every day? Why?

 For me, mathematics is very helpful in our everyday life. We need math because the information of
math helps us to make a better choice throughout every day, which helps make life simpler.

4. What have you learned from school on mathematics so far?

 I have learned a lot in math since it is the subject that you will encounter when you started to become a
student. I learned how to add numbers, know every identification of shapes and every calculation of
things which are needed in every day we use in our daily living. Although it is annoying, complex and
difficult to understand, if given the effort to understand it can give a better analytical thinking and great
agility to our mind.

5. Do you appreciate mathematics? Why or why not?

 Yes, I appreciate mathematics. Why? It’s because like us who grows from childhood with math will help
us to create experiences to interact with all around it. It will allow us to interact, compare between
everything around us and thus compare what are the similarities and differences.

6. Did you ever perform well in mathematics? Why or why not?

 When I was in elementary school, my favorite subject in class was math and I could say I was good at it.
I enjoyed every calculation I did during this grade. But when I came to high school level and now
college. This is where my favorite math subject changed. I find it difficult to understand now each topic
unlike before. And now, I can say that I'm not as good at math as I used to be.

7. Who is Fibonacci and what did he do?

 Fibonacci is the one who observed numbers in nature. Also, the one who created the Fibonacci sequence
which he was named after for. And introduced the world to such wide-ranging mathematical concepts as
what is now known as the Arabic numbering system, the concept of square roots, number sequencing,
and even math word problems

8. Why did Fibonacci become famous?

 Fibonacci become famous because of his popular contribution perhaps in the number that is seen in the
petals of flowers and by 1200, he settled down in Pisa, Italy and wrote some of his most important
works, including Liber abaci, where he expounded upon his knowledge of algebra and arithmetic. He is
perhaps most famous for the Fibonacci sequence, a number sequence where each number is the sum of
the preceding two.

9. Around what year was the Fibonacci sequence invented?

 By the year of 1202, Leonardo of Pisa laid out the text of Hindu-Arabic arithmetic useful for tracking
profits, losses, remaining loan balances that introducing the Fibonacci sequence to the Western world.