Reflection 2

Mathematics in the World

Mabulay, Kamiyah Christine S. BS Nursing 1
224697 September 20, 2022

Mathematics, like any other foreign language, necessitates effort to

learn and comprehend how the language is used. Mathematics is no
exception, as it has its own vocabulary as well as rules for combining words
to form sentences. To better understand the language of mathematics, let
us first distinguish between mathematical nouns and mathematical
sentences. In mathematics, nouns refer to mathematical objects of interest,
whereas sentences express complete mathematical thought. The language
of mathematics, also known as mathematical language, is an extension of
natural language used in mathematics and science to express results
(scientific laws, theorems, proofs, logical deductions, and so on) with
concision, precision, and unambiguity. This topic engaged English
language, as an example for the students to better understand how
mathematical language differ and similar to each other. Learning the
language of mathematics is essential to better understand and improve
one’s mathematical proficiency
The second topic or module our instructor sent was all about The
Language of Mathematics. In this topic, I felt like it was a rewind of the
beginning, the basic. We tackled here the symbols, expressions, and
functions that we commonly see or used in a mathematical expression.
Furthermore, this also includes some self-assessments to test how far and
how broad the knowledge and learning we gain from this topic. It is vital to
study first the language of mathematics because how can we understand
advance problems that requires advance vocabulary if we skip to review
this lesson.
Hence, I found this module a very refreshing one, for the reasons that
we do sometimes forget the basic part of something, in this case the
language of mathematics. Although we must always realize that no matter
how far we’ve come or how complex and advance the problems are, is that
we must always remember the language of mathematics in order to move
to the next one. This lesson is essential as this will serve as the foundation
as we tackle many more complex and advance topics in mathematics, and
we all know that mathematics is a hard subject if we do not invest our time
and efforts understanding the language we use in this subject. Once a
statement has been cast into mathematical form, it can be manipulated in
accordance with these rules, and every configuration of the symbols will
represent facts that are compatible with and dependent on those in the
original statement. That is why language of mathematics differs from
English language, Filipino language and Japanese language.