The Nature of

Mathematics
Module No. 1

Prepared by:
Dr. Richard H. Manalastas, LPT
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WHAT IS
INSIDE?

Component
Content(s)

1. Introduction:
Mathematics in
Our World
2. Patterns and
Numbers in
Nature and the
World
3. The Fibonacci
Sequence
4.. Exercise(s) /
Home Task
 THE
BEAUTY OF
MATHEMATICS
An Introduction

People nowadays are living in a world filled with

all kinds of information and needs to act on the
basis of a filtering process everyday. Filipino
learners are facing an explosion of knowledge
that requires to filter their enormous resources
of information from different subject areas. Its
vital concerns contributes to human satisfaction
enabling to uplift their minds in reality. For
most outsiders, Mathematics for them is an
unknown territory the boarders are protected by
a dense thickets of technical terms, the
landscapes are a mass of indecipherable
equations with incomprehensible concepts.
Believe it or not only few people in this world
realize that numbers are rich with vivid images
and provocative ideas.

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MATHEMATICS
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Mathematics played a major role in the

underpinnings of our world. Logical reasoning
and critical thinking skills are required in any
endeavor. It is the pillar of organized life for the
present day. Without numbers and mathematical
evidence, we cannot resolve many issues in our
daily lives. There are times, measurements,
rates, wages, tenders, discounts, claims, supplies,
jobs, stocks, contracts, taxes, money exchange,
consumption, etc., and in the absence of these
sports data, we have to face confusion and chaos.
Numbers is used in different fields to calculate
effectively the results of different activities,
forecast the behavior of a variable into another
known variables, identify well the requirement of
a particular medicine dosage to cure illness
verified whether a specific solution is applicable
to a general set-ups, ascertain the chronology of
events in the past, determine different
situational patterns and many more.

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Mathematics has become the companion of man

and his helper since the beginning of human
existence on earth. When man first wanted to
answer questions such as "How many?" he
invented math. Then algebra was invented to
facilitate calculations, measurements, analysis,
and engineering. The science of trigonometry
emerged when humans wanted to locate high
mountains and stars. Therefore, the knowledge of
this article arose and developed when human felt
the need and mathematics are necessary for the
long planning of life and also the daily planning
of any individual.

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Mathematical rapprochement is necessary for

any process, so if anyone wants to reach the
height of his life, he should not fail to believe in
the role of mathematics in his life, starting with
the ordinary citizen. Every day has a daily
interest in mathematics. Mathematics is deeply
related to the natural phenomenon, the way to
solve many secrets of nature. Mathematics is
necessary to understand the other branches of
knowledge. All depend on mathematics in one way
or another. There is no science, art, or specialty
except mathematics was the key to it. The
discipline and mastery of any other science or
art are very much related to the size of
mathematics.

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MATHEMATICS
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We look Mathematics as vital way to

think about nature and the world in
general; thus patterns and numbers that
are useful in this world will be dealt
with-to-think about the Fibonacci
sequence and other arrays of numbers
in order to forecast or estimate and
control the behavior of nature and
phenomena in this world. In the end, we
mind abou the numerous applications of
numbers as aids in decision making.

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MATHEMATICS
IN OUR WORLD
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Learning Outcomes
At the end of the module, learner(s) are
expected to:

1. Identify patterns in nature and the

world regularities;
2. Articulate the importance of
Mathematics in our life;
3. Argue about Mathematics nature,
what it is, how it is expressed,
represented, and used;
4. Express appreciation for
Mathematics as a human endeavor

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 Patterns in
Nature & The
World
Regularities
Patterns are parallel to counting and
they are both correlated. Counting
exist when there is a pattern. When
there is logic, there is counting.
Consequently, natural pattern goes
with logic or logical set up. There are
different reasons behind a certain
patterns that use in representing and
explain it in a real world scenarios.
Mathematics exists everywhere as
patterns do in nature known as
"unifying mechanism".

"PATTERNS CAN BE SEQUENTIAL, SPATIAL,

TEMPORAL, AND EVEN LINGUISTIC".

According to Collins (2018), a

REGULARITY is the fact that the same
thing always happen in the same
circumstances while a PATTERN is a
discernible world regularity or in a man
made design and the elements of a
pattern repeat in a predictable manner.
NATURE PATTERNS are visible form of
regularities found in a natural world.
These includes symmetries, trees,
spirals, meanders, waves, foams,
tessellations, cracks, and stripes.
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PATTERNS IN NATURE
AND WORLD
REGULARITIES
Ian Stewart (1995) cited
that we live in a universe
of patterns.

PATTERNS are found in a

construction materials, everything
from brick walls to walk ways. It can
be found in rooftops, tiled floors, and
stairways. Even the wind can create
patterns in the sand. The most basic
pattern are the date sequences in a
calendar such as month, days, annum,
and even holidays that are celebrated
in the same sequence every year. All
of these phenomena create a
repetition of names or events known
as regularity.
"

REGULARITY IN THE
WORLD states that
the fact that the
same thing always
happen in the same
circumstances.

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THE BASIC
SAMPLES OF
PATTERNS IN
NATURE

1. SYMMETRY
Define as an agreement in
dimensions, due
proportion, and
arrangement. This means
that an object is in variant
to any various
transformations including
reflections.
3. MEANDER
It is one of a series of
regular sinuous curves,
bends, loops, turns, or
4. WAVE
windings in the river
channel, stream, water
course. It is produced by a
river swinging from side to
side as it flows across its
shifts as channel within a
valley..t is produced by
river that erodes the
sediments compromising
outer, concave bank and
deposits which is typically a
point bar.
2. SPIRAL
It is a curve which
emanates from a point,
moving farther away as it
revolves around the point.
Cutaway of a nautilus shell
shows the chamber
arranged in an
approximately logarithmic
spiral.
Is is a disturbance that
transfers energy through
matter or space, with little
or no associated mass
transport. It consist of
oscillations or vibrations of
a physical medium or a
field, around relatively fixed
locations.

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THE BASIC
SAMPLES OF
PATTERNS IN
NATURE

5. FOAM
It is a substance that
formed by trapping
pockets of gas in a liquid or
solid. A bath of sponge and
the head on a glass of beer 6. TESSELATION
are good examples of
Under the flat surface is the
foams. In most foam, the
tiling of a plane using one
gas volume is large, with
or more geometric shapes
thin films of liquid or solid
called tiles, with no
separating the region of
overlaps and no gaps. It
gas. Soap foams are known
can be generalized to
as suds.
higher dimensions and a
7. CRACK FRACTURE variety of geometries.

It is the separation of an
object or material into two
or more pieces under tha
8. STRIPES
action of stress. It usually
occurs due to the Are made by a series of
development of certain bands or strips, often of the
displacement continuity same width and color along
surfaces within the solid. If the length.
a displacement develops
perpendicular to the
surface displacement, it is
called a normal tensile
crack or simply a crack. But
if it is tangential
displacement it is called a
shear crack or dislocation.
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THE BASIC
SAMPLES OF
PATTERNS IN
NATURE

9 FRACTAL
10. AFFINE
A never-ending pattern that
are infinitely complex and
TRANSFORMATIONS
self similar across different
These are the processes of
scales. Created by
rotation, reflection, and
repeating a simple process
scaling. Many plant forms
over and over in an
and utilize these processes
ongoing feed back loop.
to generate their structure.
These are images of
One best examples are
dynamic systems - the
Brocolli and Cauliflower
pictures of chaos. They
heads, it can readily be
exist in between our
seen that there is a type of
familiar dimensions. They
pattern which also shows
are also extremely familiar
some spiraling feature.
since nature is full of
fractals such as trees,
rivers, coastlines,
mountains, clouds,
seashells, hurricanes, etc.

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 The Fibonacci Sequence
Another Mathematical Pattern

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a sequen cci sequence, suc of
that given two terms, a
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followed by the next that eac eceding ones,
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the two om 0 and 1. That
term is determined by fr d
starting yle F_{0}=0,\qua
st
adding the given terms {\display {\displaystyle
nd n > 1.
F_{1}=1,}a -1}+F_{n-2},}for
{n
mathematically. F_{n}=F_

a t ion 1: Explanation 2:
E x p l a n
us: Fibonacci numbers are strongly
ce is th
e sequen related to the golden ratio: Binet's
b e g i n n ing of th
The ,\
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,
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;144 F_{
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valu e {
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h {
so that t aystyle F_{1}=F_ }=F_{n- numbers tends to the golden ratio
sp l {n
with {\di {\displaystyle F_ as n increases.
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recurren is valid for n > 2.
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1}+F_{n-2
 How to Solve Fibonacci
General formula:
{F_{n}=F_{n-1}+F_{n-2}}.

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f i r s t t erm (1) a e third term (2) to get the fourth
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shou l 1.
t e r m ) , s o1+0= the fifth number in the sequence.
first
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in our Modern World

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MEASUREMENT

Necessary to build things such as houses and buildings. It is the

determination of ratios of quantities and the process of
associating numbers with physical phenomena.

It is measured through indefinite continued progress of existence

TIME

and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.

ESTIMATIONS

Knowns as forecasting or regression to predict or figure out how

many things or how many people may possibly occur. It is a rough
calculation of the value, number, quantity, or extent of something.

A current medium of exchange in the forms of coins and

banknotes collectively. The assets, property, and resources owned
MONEY

by someone or something wealth. It is a medium of exchange that

market participants use to engage in transactions for good and
services.
GEOMETRY

A branch of mathematics that deals with measurement,

properties, and relationships with shapes, points, lines, angles etc.
Also known as Earth measurement.
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FRACTIONS

Are used to determine what portion of a whole you need. It is a

numerical quantity of a small or tiny part or proportion of
something. This represents an equal parts of a collection.

Relating to or denoting a system of numbers and the arithmetic based on

DECIMALS

the number ten, tenth parts, and powers of ten. We use decimals 24/7 while
dealing with money, weight, length, etc. Also used in situations where
precision is required than the whole numbers can provide.

Define as per hundred. It can be compared more easily than

PERCENTS

fractions. Shops advertise discounts on products. Financial

institutions quote interest charged to client on loans, or interest
paid for money invested.

The extent to which an event is likely occur, measured by the ratio

PROBABILITY

of the favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible.

Drawing an ace from a deck of cards or picking a green piece of
candy from a bag of assorted colors are used to make decisions
and dont know what the outcome will be.

A philosophy of teaching & learning through which students work

together to solve a scenario of priority to their community. Real
PROBLEM
SOLVING

world problem solving requires input from experts in the field and
the access to current knowledge.
 PATTERNS,
NUMBERS IN
NATURE, AND THE
WORLD
Observe the following pattern that surround us.

What numbers
COORDINATOR: do we see? Do they establish a pattern?

SITUATION: NUMBERS: PATTERNS:

86, 75, and 79. These

1. The final grades represent the
85
grades in outcome of a
75 student's
your grade
79 performance using
12 subjects specific criteria.
 PATTERNS,
NUMBERS IN
NATURE, AND THE
WORLD
Observe the following pattern that surround us.

What numbers
COORDINATOR: do we see? Do they establish a pattern?

SITUATION: NUMBERS: PATTERNS:

2. The feast day The 3rd Sunday of

Every 3rd January may fall on
of Jesus Christ
Sunday of the 15th, 16th, or
in Shrine Hills even 17th thus there
January
of Davao City is no specific date.
 PATTERNS,
NUMBERS IN
NATURE, AND THE
WORLD
Observe the following pattern that surround us.

What numbers
COORDINATOR: do we see? Do they establish a pattern?

SITUATION: NUMBERS: PATTERNS:

The percentage increase or

Per Annum: decrease in the annual sales

can be computed as follows:

3. The periodic 2010 - 15M

2010 - The base or initial
year

sales of EFG 2011 - 18M 2011:

Department 2012 - 20M
(18 M - 15 M) / 15M X 100%
= 20%
Store 2013 - 25M
2012:
2014 - 28M (20M - 18M) / 18M X 100%

2015 - 30M = 11.11%

2013:
(25M - 20M)/20M X 100%
=25%

2014:
(28M - 25M)/25M X 100%
= 12%
 PATTERNS,
NUMBERS IN
NATURE, AND THE
WORLD
Observe the following pattern that surround us.

What numbers
COORDINATOR: do we see? Do they establish a pattern?

SITUATION: NUMBERS: PATTERNS:

5 refers to the block number

5 of your house

4. The number 30 30 indicates the lot of your

where your house

house is CRC CRC defines the street of

situated your house

Steel Homes Steel Homes - is the name of

your subdivision

San Luis San Luis - defines the name

of your Barangay

IV-A IV-A designates a

CALABARZON Region
THIRD TASK(S):
THE MATHEMATICS IN OUR WORLD

Answer the following question(s).

I. Consider an event or a situation in your life. What Mathematical
Patterns are present?

TASK NUMBERS PATTERNS

HOMEWORK

Do a research on the
average prices of oil (per
annum) & compute for the
percentage
increase/decrease.

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 PATTERNS,
NUMBERS IN
NATURE, AND THE
WORLD
Observe the following pattern that surround us.

What numbers
COORDINATOR: do we see? Do they establish a pattern?

SITUATION: NUMBERS: PATTERNS:

Per Annum:
2010 - 18M
The periodic 2011 - 22M
sales of SN 2012 - 26M
Department 2013 - 30M
Store 2014 - 36M
2015 - 42M
2016 - 48M
2017 - 54 M
2018 - 58 M
2019 - 64 M
2020 - 72 M