Lesson 01: Mathematics in our World

• WHAT is Mathematics FOR?

LESSON ONE OUTLINE → Mathematics has countless hidden uses and
I. The Nature of Mathematics applications. It is not only something that delights
our minds, but it also allows us to learn and
II. Different Kinds of Patterns understand the natural order of the world.
A. Patterns
B. Symmetry • WHAT is Mathematics ALL ABOUT?
C. Fibonacci → The human mind and culture developed a
conceptual landscape for mathematical thoughts
and ideas to flourish and propagate.
THE NATURE OF MATHEMATICS
• HOW is Mathematics DONE?
• WHAT is Mathematics?
→ Math is a way of thinking, and it is undeniably
→ Mathematics, as a tool, is immensely useful,
important to see how that thinking is going to be
practical, and powerful.
developed rather than just merely see face value
of the results.
o The Nature of Mathematics as Illustrated by
Nocon and Nocon
• WHO USES Mathematics?
→ Mathematics is for EVERYONE.
study of
patterns → Everyone uses mathematics, whoever they
are, wherever they are, and whenever they
need to.

art language • WHY is Mathematics IMPORTANT to Learn?

Mathematics → Mathematical training is vital to decipher the
is a/an… clues provided by nature. But the role of
mathematics goes clues and it goes beyond
prediction.

set of
process of
problem-
thinking DIFFERENT KINDS OF PATTERNS
solving tools
PATTERNS

• WHERE is Mathematics?
→ Mathematics is EVERYWHERE.
→ We use mathematics in our daily tasks and
activities.
→ It is an important tool in the field of sciences,
humanities, literature, medicine, and even
music and arts.
→ It is in the rhythm of our daily activities,
operational in our communities, and a
default system of our culture.
• Visual Patterns
→ often unpredictable, never quite repeatable, and
often fractals
→ can be seen from the seeds and pinecones to the
branches and leaves
→ also visible in self-similar replication of trees,
ferns, and plants throughout nature
• Flow Patterns
→ usually found in the water, stone, and even in the
growth of trees
→ also present in meandering rivers with the
repetition of undulating lines

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• Movement Patterns o Rotational Symmetry

→ in the human walk, the feet strike the grounding a
regular rhythm: the left-right-left-right-left
rhythm
→ this prevalence of pattern in locomotion extends
to the scuttling of insects, the flight of birds, the
pulsations of jellyfish, and also the wave-like
movements of fish, worms, and snakes
→ Rotations
→ captures symmetries when it still looks the
same after some rotation
→ The degree of rotational symmetry of
an object is recognized by the number of
distinct orientations in which it looks the
same for each rotation.

• Rhythmic Patterns
→ conceivably the most basic pattern in nature
o Translation Symmetry
→ many of nature’s rhythms are most likely similar
→ Translations
to a heartbeat, while others are like breathing
→ exists in patterns that we see in nature and
→ the beating of the heart, as well as breathing,
in man-made objects
have a default pattern
→ Translations acquire symmetries when
units are repeated and turn out having
• Texture Patterns
identical figures, like the bees’
→ a quality of a certain object that we sense through
honeycomb with hexagonal tiles.
touch
→ exists as a literal surface that we can feel, see,
and imagine • Symmetries in Nature
→ can be bristly, and rough, but can also be smooth, o Human Body
cold, and hard o Animal Movement
o Snowflakes
• Geometric Patterns o Starfish
→ a kind of pattern which consists of a series of
shapes that are typically repeated
→ regularities in the natural world that are repeated FIBONACCI
in a predictable manner
• Fibonacci in Nature
• Patterns in Nature → In describing the amazing variety of phenomena
o Waves in nature we stumble to discover the existence of
Fibonacci numbers.
o Dunes
→ It turns out that the Fibonacci numbers appear
o Spots
from the smallest up to the biggest objects in the
o Stripes
natural world.
o Spirals

SYMMETRY
REFERENCES
• Symmetry o Discussions and PowerPoint from GEd 102
→ divided into two with two halves which are the Instructor
same
TRANSCRIBED BY
o Reflection Symmetry
o Bautista, M.D.
→ Line Symmetry
→ Mirror Symmetry
→ captures symmetry when the left half of a
pattern is the same as the right half

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